Cardinals arriving for the first day of meetings after Pope Francis’ funeral were swarmed at the city-state’s gates by ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Roman Catholic cardinals will meet in a secret conclave to elect the new leader of the global Church ...

The closed-door meeting will begin in the Sistine Chapel and will involve some 135 cardinals from across the world.

Cardinals have chosen May 7 as the date to start conclave and elect a new leader for 1.4 billion Catholics around the world, ...

The Vatican is closing the Sistine Chapel to the public as part of its preparations for the the conclave to elect the next ...

The Holy See Press Office announced on Monday that the conclave to elect a new Pope will begin on May 7. “The Cardinals ...

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

The cardinals eligible to vote for the new pope will gather in the coming weeks and enter seclusion to secretly vote for the new bishop of Rome.

The process of picking a new pope is filled with ancient rituals like a secret ballot and locked doors. See a visual guide to conclave.

After a nine-day mourning period, cardinals will gather to choose the next leader of the Catholic Church. View on euronews ...

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 ...