Conclave: Inside the secret election to choose the next Pope - The method the Catholic Church uses to select their leader has ...

As the Oscar-nominated film "Conclave" made clear, the election of a pope is a Hollywood-worthy drama steeped in mystery, ...

The demise of Pope Francis has set in motion the process of electing a new one in what is known as a conclave. This event ...

When the newly elected Pope Francis stepped onto the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica in 2013 to greet the crowd, he joked that ...

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

Cardinals this week will start in-depth discussions on planning the conclave to choose Pope Francis' successor.

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.

A change in popes is a complicated process. These are the need-to-know terms — some of them in Latin — to help make sense of ...

Following are key facts about the conclave - one of the world’s oldest and most secretive electoral processes.