Tens of thousands of travellers have descended on the city for the funeral of Pope Francis and the election of a new pontiff.

On the morning of May 7 the conclave will commence, with all the cardinals present, with the Holy Mass for the Election of ...

The cardinals will take their oaths in the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, before they cast their first ballots. The conclave is ...

All mobile phone signal will be deactivated in the Vatican on Wednesday ahead of the highly secretive conclave to elect the ...

More than 130 cardinals will be sequestered in the Sistine Chapel to elect the Catholic Church's 267th pontiff after Pope Francis' death.

Cardinals who will take part in the secret conclave to elect a new Catholic pope began checking into two Vatican hotels on ...

Cleaners and cooks. Doctors and nurses. Even drivers and elevator operators.The support staff for the cardinals who will ...

Gibson, of Fordham, said another factor that might throw off the traditional resistance to an American pope is the election ...

Pope Francis appointed women to key Vatican posts. Will his successor consider women as deacons and priests next?

NCR analyzed the biographies, background, articles, speeches, homilies and media interviews of members of the College of ...