The next vote in Vatican City is expected to take place around 10.30am (local time) and the second about noon. If neither ...

It took nearly 440 years after the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines before the first Filipino, Rufino Jiao Santos, joined the College of Cardinals in 1960. Another 52 years passed before ...

Cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to resume voting for a new pope after the first conclave ballot failed to ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the first-ever cardinal from Jerusalem, has emerged as a potential contender for the papacy ...

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

Black smoke signals no new pope yet as the conclave begins voting in Vatican; here's what the smoke colours mean and how the ...

Forty-eight-hundred-and-four miles separate Vatican City from Chicago's Holy Name Cathedral, but a group of faithful gathered ...

Catholics in Boise are closely watching the Vatican as the papal conclave begins in the Sistine Chapel to elect a new pope ...

The great doors of the Sistine Chapel shut Wednesday after the cry of “extra omnes” — Latin for “all out” — and 133 cardinals ...

That the Church should opt for the poor is particularly relevant in Asia, where millions suffer extreme poverty ...

Excluded from the conclave to elect a new pope Wednesday -- and more broadly from the Church's entire global priesthood -- ...

Cardinals set for more talks after black smoke signals no pope chosen on first day - The smoke signals that the 133 cardinals ...