A new pope will be selected when a candidate gets a two-thirds-plus-one majority vote by the cardinal electors. White smoke ...

Catholic cardinals are returning to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday for a second day of voting to try and elect a new pope.

Catholic cardinals gather and sequester themselves in the Vatican for the start of a conclave to elect a new pope.

Cardinal Robert Prevost on Thursday became the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church.

As a fireworks expert tests the Vatican's contemporary system for "holy smoke," Catholic cardinals mull their divergent ...

Catholic cardinals are gathering at the Vatican to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21. Voting will ...

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves Wednesday behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to ...

The conclave to choose the new pope is underway. And among the cardinals choosing the new Catholic leader is an Ohio native.

Pope Leo XIV signalled on Saturday he would continue with the vision and reforms of Pope Francis, telling the world's ...

BST - white smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney will signal when they've chosen a new pope.

American Cardinal Robert Prevost was shortly thereafter announced as the 267th pontiff. He chose the name Leo XIV, a senior cardinal deacon announced. The 69-year-old Chicago native is the first ...