Exit tourists. Enter cardinals. The Vatican has closed the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather for the conclave to ...

With the funeral of Pope Francis concluded, preparations are under way for the beginning of the Papal Conclave, which will ...

Cardinals arriving for the first day of meetings after Pope Francis’ funeral were swarmed at the city-state’s gates by journalists eager for hints of whether any consensus is building around the ...

Some 120 Cardinals will join a Vatican conclave to elect Pope Francis' successor. The subject of an Oscar-winning film and ...

Pope Francis died at age 88 on April 21, setting off a series of centuries-old rituals to select a new leader of the Catholic ...

Pope Francis's death at the age of 88 means the Catholic Church must choose a new leader. Here's how cardinals elect the next ...

The conclave is a time-honored process conducted in secrecy behind the locked doors of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.

As Pope Francis's funeral approaches, 'Conclave' author Robert Harris discusses the papal selection process and why ...

As a result of Francis’ expansion of the diversity of cardinals who will elect his successor, all that is certain about the ...

Simply put, a conclave is the assembly of cardinals that elects a pope. The word itself comes from the Latin "com" and ...

They want calm and for the Vatican to cause as little heartburn as possible,” one source told The Post of cardinals voting ...

Cardinals this week will start in-depth discussions on planning the conclave to choose Pope Francis’ successor ...