The next person elected pope in the papal conclave will need at least 89 votes in order to achieve the majority from the College of Cardinals.

VATICAN CITY — Cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to resume voting for a new pope after the first conclave ...

Cardinals are meeting in a secret, sacred conclave for a second day as they seek a new pontiff to follow Pope Francis.

Cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to resume voting for a new pope after the first conclave ballot failed to find a winner, sending billowing black smoke through the chapel chimney.

When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected pope in 2013, many liberals had high expectations. Would priests be allowed to marry? Or, more radical still, perhaps he would open a path for women to ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich led the delegation of North American Cardinals as they boarded buses bound for sequestered quarters at the Vatican Tuesday eveni ...

The conclave to select the next pope has begun after Catholic cardinals from across the world filed into the Sistine Chapel ...

A conclave will go on for as long as needed. The longest was almost three years from 1268 to 1271. Some have been a day. The ...

The great doors of the Sistine Chapel shut Wednesday after the cry of “extra omnes” — Latin for “all out” — and 133 cardinals ...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York made his way to the Sistine Chapel May 7 to participate in the conclave process to elect the next pope.

The conclave to elect a new pope has begun, but how long will it last? Here's the longest and shortest a conclave has lasted in history.