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The Latest: Cardinals Vote in the Vatican for a Second Day to Elect a New Pope
The 133 cardinals are expected to vote again in the morning after spending the night sequestered at the Vatican residences. On Wednesday evening, black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave.
The conclave to select the next pope has begun after Catholic cardinals from across the world filed into the Sistine Chapel ...
The first thing the new pope will do is choose a name. In the history of the papacy, the most commonly used name has been ...
Pope Leo XIV gave a homily at a Mass a day after he was chosen to lead the Catholic Church. Here's what the new pontiff said, ...
Cardinals are meeting in a secret, sacred conclave for a second day as they seek a new pontiff to follow Pope Francis.
Japanese Cardinal Isao Kikuchi of Tokyo says Pope Leo XIV’s previous work as a missionary and as a Vatican official were ...
Cardinal Daniel DiNardo led the Sioux City diocese as bishop for six years during the early 2000s. The 75-year-old is ...
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Robert Prevost has been elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born ...
However, for centuries, popes have only been chosen from among the Catholic cardinals, the church's most senior officials. The conclave takes place in the Sistine Chapel, behind sealed doors.
In the 13th century, it took almost three years — 1,006 days to be exact — to choose Pope Clement IV's successor, making it the longest conclave in the Catholic Church’s history. It's also ...
The question facing the conclave is whether the cardinals want to continue in the direction set by Pope Francis.
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