To ensure full privacy during the conclave, special signal jammers will also be used around the Sistine Chapel. These will ...

Odds are on a short conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor, with 267th pope likely to be picked by Thursday or Friday ...

Cleaners and cooks. Doctors and nurses. Even drivers and elevator operators.The support staff for the cardinals who will ...

Cardinals gathered at the Vatican for a meeting ahead of electing a new pope have emphasized the need for a pastoral pope who ...

Ahead of the secretive conclave to elect the next pope, all mobile phone signals will be deactivated in the Vatican on ...

Gibson, of Fordham, said another factor that might throw off the traditional resistance to an American pope is the election ...

Pope Francis appointed women to key Vatican posts. Will his successor consider women as deacons and priests next?

NCR analyzed the biographies, background, articles, speeches, homilies and media interviews of members of the College of ...

Preparations are underway at the Vatican as the conclave is set to begin Wednesday. Cardinals and select workers will be ...

Sistine Chapel to elect the next pope. Understanding their makeup in geographic terms can help explain some of their ...