It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that put an end to the longest papal election in ...

The voting is highly choreographed and time-consuming to avoid any possibility of fraud or doubt about the results.

As different as a papal election is from every other kind of election in the modern world, each conclave nonetheless has an ...

A conclave is the centuries-old election of a pope that derives its name from the Italian “con clave” (with a key) to ...

The College of Cardinals gathers this week to elect the next pope to lead the Catholic Church. But what preparations go into setting up the rare, secretive event?

But papal betting has a long history. Roman banking houses were taking bets as far back as 1503. Alessandro Damasceni Peretti ...

Shortly after it was announced that Pope Francis had died, online gambling websites posted the betting favorites to replace ...

Conclave” the film may have introduced moviegoers to the spectacular ritual and drama of a modern conclave, but the periodic ...

Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini is taking to his first conclave the same spirit that guided his decades-long front-line ministry ...

Vance — the highest-ranking Catholic elected official in the nation — was asked on Twitter what he thought of Trump’s mocking ...

The image, shared Friday night on Trump's Truth Social site and later reposted by the White House on its official X account, ...