All but four of the 135 cardinals who are eligible to enter the conclave May 7 to vote for a new pope had arrived in Rome by ...

The voting is highly choreographed and time-consuming to avoid any possibility of fraud or doubt about the results.

The College of Cardinals will begin the secretive voting process of choosing a new pope on Wednesday, May 7, and FOX 5 NY will have a 24/7 LIVE look at the Sistine Chapel.

From the longest and shortest elections to the origin of the required vow of secrecy, here are some facts about the centuries ...

The Vatican is finalizing preparations for the May 7 conclave, with firefighters on Friday installing a chimney on the roof ...

A chimney was installed Friday, May 2, on the roof of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican ahead of the conclave to pick the ...

After every two rounds of voting in the Sistine Chapel, the ballots of the cardinals are burned in a special furnace to ...

A Maryland parish priest told OSV News ahead of the upcoming conclave that he has "an enormous degree of confidence" in the ...

Even though cardinals don’t campaign for the job of pope, there are always front-runners going into a conclave to choose the ...

Ahead of the May 7 papal conclave, workers installed a chimney at the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. The conclaves famously ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS)—All but four of the 135 cardinals who are eligible to enter the conclave May 7 to vote for a new pope had ...

Gammarelli family's clerical tailor shop in Rome prepared vestments for Pope Francis, Pope Benedict XVI and Pope John Paul II ...