By Joshua McElwee, Crispian Balmer and Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Black smoke billowed from a chimney atop the ...

The Catholic Church is not dying from persecution. It is dying from confusion. Under Pope Francis, ambiguity became policy.

While the cardinals are known to wear their scarlet red attire, some individuals involved in conclave proceedings were seen ...

Catholic cardinals gather and sequester themselves in the Vatican for the start of a conclave to elect a new pope.

Despite being the “princes” of the church, the cardinals are not exempt from excommunication if they violate the rules of the ...

On Day 2, the cardinals will begin their day with a mass in the Pauline Chapel and then retreat to the Sistine Chapel for ...

The 133 cardinals are expected to vote again in the morning after spending the night sequestered at the Vatican residences.

While younger cardinals are busy choosing the new pope, older cardinals are mostly waiting it out like the rest of us ...

Thick black smoke billowed Thursday from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in a sign that cardinals again failed to elect a ...

CBS anchor Tony Dokoupil faced backlash after using the slang term 'raw-dogging' to describe the isolation of ...

Cardinals are returning to the Sistine Chapel today for the second day of the conclave to choose a successor to Pope Francis.

The cardinals are shut off from the world for the secretive voting that will result in new leadership for the world's 1.4 ...