Invoking the help of the Holy Spirit and recognizing that millions of people all over the world were praying for them, 133 cardinals entered the Sistine Chapel with a singular goal: to elect "a worthy ...

Cardinals held the Pro Eligendo Romano Pontifice Mass (Latin: For the Election of the Roman Pontiff) — the final liturgical celebration before the conclave.

On Wednesday afternoon, red-hatted clerics who carry the same weight and dignity as princes within the Catholic Church ...

Cardinal electors are meeting in the Sistine Chapel to vote on a new Pope until they have a two-thirds majority. NBC News ...

BREAKING: 133 red-robed cardinals from around the world have filed into the Sistine Chapel, and the doors sealed behind them.

As 133 cardinals enter the Sistine Chapel to begin voting for a new pope, the church's problems and perplexities remain bigger than the sum of the questions posed in the days since Francis died.

Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become the next pope.

Much of the world’s attention is on the Vatican, where conclave has begun and cardinals are meeting to select a successor to ...

Following the oath of secrecy - which was streamed live by Vatican News - the cardinals will cast their first and only vote of the day in strict privacy behind closed doors ...

Theologian Jonathan Morris breaks down the process of the papal conclave vote to select the successor to Pope Francis on ‘The Faulkner Focus.’ ...

The doors of the Sistine Chapel were shut and locked to the public after all 133 cardinal electors took the oath of secrecy, ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday began the secretive, ...