The Vatican has a dual mission: to ensure the safety of the cardinals and to safeguard the strict secrecy of the process, ...

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves Wednesday behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to ...

The College of Cardinals will begin the secretive voting process of choosing a new pope on Wednesday, May 7 -- and FOX 5 NY ...

However, along the immense walls surrounding the Vatican, it was business as usual May 7 as hundreds of tourists joined the ...

Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become ...

The conclave officially commences Wednesday, May 7 at 4 a.m. ET (10 a.m. in Rome) with a mass in Saint Peter's Basilica. The ...

The Swiss Guard, the pope’s iconic bodyguards, look ceremonial but in the pageantry of the Renaissance-style uniform lies the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday ...

VATICAN CITY -- The conclave to elect the 267th pope and successor to Pope Francis gets underway Wednesday. In total, 133 ...

VATICAN CITY, — One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican's medieval walls for ...

As the conclave gets underway, eyes are searching for the billowing white smoke that signals Habemus Papam: “We have a pope.” ...