The shortest conclave history was in 1503, when Pope Julius II was elected in just under 10 hours. The 2013 papal conclave, ...

Pope Francis on Saturday morning in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, before the late leader of the Catholic Church was ...

White smoke curled from a chimney over the Sistine Chapel at 7:06 p.m. March 13, 2013. Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina had been chosen as the new Pope.

Pope Francis died on Monday at the age of 88. His funeral will take place in St. Peter’s Square today before his body is ...

A papal conclave, the election of a new pope, tends to begin 15-20 days after a papal vacancy. Black or white smoke indicates ...

As many as 200,000 people are expected to attend the funeral, which Francis choreographed himself when he revised and ...

Francis did away with that sort of viewing. Instead, a procession brought his coffin on Wednesday directly to St. Peter’s ...

From the outside, it looks like any other New England church building: a boxy, white structure with a single steeple ...

At that point, he becomes the new pope and will state his chosen pontifical name before the assembled cardinals. The most ...