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

Papal conclaves have featured calls of election fraud and bribery so gauche that riches were wheeled in on donkey carts.

Black smoke bellowed from the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday night, meaning the cardinals did not select a new pope. More voting ...

The cardinals can vote twice Thursday morning and twice in the afternoon. If no one collects a two-thirds majority, the ...

Catholic cardinals from around the world gathered in the Vatican on Wednesday for the start of the conclave, the ...

The cardinals are participating in the most geographically diverse conclave in the faith’s 2,000-year history.

The Catholic Church's cardinal electors entered the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican to choose a successor to Pope Francis, as ...

A conclave of as many as 250 Catholic cardinals at the Vatican produced black smoke, indicating no result, following the ...

The 133 cardinals tasked with electing the next leader of the Catholic Church had their first vote on Wednesday.

The potential influence of the spiritual leader of 1.4 billion Catholics attracts the attention of the secular world as well.

Here's how the conclave creates black and white smoke and why the Catholic Church began using them to signal whether a new ...

Catholic cardinals are gathering at the Vatican to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21. Voting will ...