After Pope Francis’ funeral, 135 cardinals will gather for a conclave to elect a new pope. The traditions include oaths of secrecy, paper ballots and white smoke from a chimney of the Sistine Chapel.

The Oscar-nominated 2024 film, starring Ralph Fiennes, offers a fictionalized, high-stakes look at what happens behind the ...

Pope Francis has died, setting off a historical process that will see a new pontiff elected by more than 100 cardinals during ...

After the ballots are pierced, they are burned in a cylindrical stove at the end of the voting session. Black smoke from the ...

Vatican City is located in Rome, along the Tiber River. Yes, the Vatican is its own country. In fact, it's the smallest fully ...

Like his predecessors, Pope Francis was selected using an age-old method — a system known as the Papal conclave.

On April 15, the Treasury issued a direct final rule to eliminate several regulations or portions of regulations it deemed unnecessary in response ...

In the papal conclave to elect a new pope, here's a look at what the color of smoke (black or white) means after each vote.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear ...

Pope Francis's death sets an ancient machinery into motion. Soon, with a puff of smoke, the last absolute monarchy in Europe ...

Papal experts have lauded the Oscar-nominated film as one of the more accurate depictions of the closed-door Vatican ...