Catholic cardinals have reconvened in the Sistine Chapel for a second day of voting to continue their effort to elect a new pope. In the first two votes of the day, black smoke rose from the chimney.

On the second day of the conclave at the Vatican, the cardinal electors chose Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new ...

On the afternoon of Thursday, May 8, white smoke from the Sistine Chapel's chimney billowed into the sky, prompting waves of ...

In that hour, the elected cardinal chose his papal name. About 20 minutes after his name was announced as the new pontiff, Francis appeared on the Sistine Chapel balcony, greeting the world as pope ...

New York Archbishop Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who was part of the 2013 conclave that elected Pope Francis, left the Pontifical North American College, along with his fellow American cardinals, sometime ...

A new pope has officially been elected as white smoke poured from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica tolled.

White smoke billowed from the chimney at the Sistine Chapel Thursday, signaling the election of a new Pope to lead the Roman Catholic Church.

After Pope Francis’s death, the Catholic Church is in the process of finding a new head. The new Pope will have supreme and full authority over the universal Church,  according to the Catechism of the ...

I don’t think he’s the kind of man who sends coded messages,” Cardinal Michael Czerny says in this exclusive interview with ...

The way the news of the new pope’s heritage was made public speaks to the complexity of discussions of race in the U.S.

Still, it was an exciting moment for the Americans who were at the Vatican that day. Mariner says he and his wife were in a ...

Throughout the 20th century, only two conclaves lasted up to five days − Pope Pius X's election in 1903 and Pope Pius XI's ...