In the 13th century, it took almost three years — 1,006 days to be exact — to choose Pope Clement IV's successor.

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

Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle has replaced Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin as the new favorite to become the next pope ...

A PONTIFICAL coronation was held for the statue of Our Lady of Fatima de Binakayan, more popularly known as "Imang," at the Diocesan Shrine and Parish of Our Lady of Fatima in Kawit, Cavite, on ...

The unprecedented number of 133 cardinal electors surpasses all previous papal conclaves, breaking the previous record of 115 electors in the 2005 and 2013 elections.

The Oscar-nominated film stars Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini and offers a fictionalized, high-stakes ...

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.

Several cardinals have spoken with an American media outlet to register their dissatisfaction with some of what has been said ...

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

If the next pope is from sub-Saharan Africa, he would be the first in Catholic Church history. Catholic Africans think it is ...

Preparations for the conclave to find a new pope accelerated Friday with the installation of the chimney out of the Sistine Chapel that will signal the election of a successor to Pope Francis.