Cardinals from across the globe will gather in the Sistine Chapel from May 7 to choose the next pope, with no contact with ...

Now that the start date of the papal conclave has been set for May 7, NPR walks through who'll be there and how they'll be electing the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

Once-powerful Vatican official Cardinal Angelo Becciu has formally withdrawn from participating in the conclave to elect a ...

The Italian cardinal at the heart of the Vatican’s “trial of the century” announced Tuesday he was withdrawing from ...

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Two Catholic cardinals will miss the conclave next week to elect a successor to Pope Francis because of health issues, the ...

They may be looking at Francis as a model and choose another outsider. Or they may look at Francis' own predecessor, Pope ...

Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, the first cardinal ever convicted by a Vatican court, was sentenced to five and a half years ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A conclave is the centuries-old election of a pope that derives its name from the Italian “con clave” ...

Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, convicted of financial crimes, will not participate in the upcoming conclave to elect the ...