Pope Francis has been laid to rest, the conclave has been assembled and, after due deliberation by the participating cardinals, the world at last has seen white smoke wafting from the Sistine Chapel ...

Conclave: The key names and words to know as a new Pope is selected - The centuries-old transition process involves an ...

Simply put, a conclave is the assembly of cardinals that elects a pope. The word itself comes from the Latin "com" and ...

Six are joining in their first papal conclave, and four others participated in the 2013 conclave that elected Pope Francis.

A change in popes — through death or resignation — is a complicated process, with centuries-old rituals involving the transition in leadership for both the spiritual head of ...

A look at the Irish American Cardinal electors set to partake in the Conclave to elect a new Pope following Francis' death.

(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File) VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Kevin Farrell remembers the day Pope Francis asked him to be the camerlengo, the Vatican official who runs the Holy See after the ...

Whether or not it's meant to be so, the celebrants of the Masses of mourning find themselves in a kind of audition for the ...

Print out 133 copies of Archbishop Chaput’s essay—pronto.

The ring and seal are destroyed or nulled after a pope’s death to prevent their future misuse to seal official documents.

Here is a brief glossary of the event's key terms: - Camerlengo: Between the death or resignation of a pope and the election ...