Over 130 voting cardinals must decide whether to continue in the direction of Francis or elect a pope likely to choose a more traditional path.

Hector Camacho remembers Robert Prevost, set to be formally inaugurated as Pope Leo XIV on Sunday, as a young jeans-wearing missionary from Chicago with broken Spanish, landing in Peru at a time when ...

The secretive process to elect a new Roman Catholic pope begins on May 7 ... Electors vote by secret ballot, walk up to a chalice – which is a large goblet – say a prayer and drop their ballots in the ...

The process to vote in a new pope is underway. Pope Francis died April ... Here's what you need to know about the papal conclave and how you can keep up with live updates of this historic conclave.

A conservative cardinal has said that whoever the next pope must stand up to the “gay lobby ... which is placed into a chalice to keep it as anonymous as possible. Four rounds of balloting ...

If one candidate for pope doesn't receive the required two-thirds vote, the cardinals will send up black smoke to tell ... twice and drop them into a chalice, according to the United States ...

Gidel Sanchez, a fourth-grader, scribbled a name on an index card, folded it up, and put it into a basket ... known as Leo XIV and is the first US pope to hold the position in history, stepped ...