Cardinals from around the world will meet under Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel on May 7 to elect a new leader ...

An Italian cardinal who was convicted of embezzlement and fraud said on April 29 he will not take part in the secret conclave ...

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.

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

An Italian cardinal who was convicted of embezzlement and fraud said on Tuesday he will not take part in the secret conclave ...

While Francis stacked the ranks with his cardinals, it is not necessarily the case that all of them will want to see the ...

The Cardinal of Baghdad, Louis Raphael Sako, told journalists at the Vatican on Tuesday that he expects a "short conclave." ...

When Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was elected in 2013 as Pope Francis, he was a near total Vatican outsider. He had never been a ...

Becciu was sentenced to nearly five years in prison after a Vatican criminal court found him guilty of fraud and embezzlement ...

Pope Francis's death at the age of 88 means the Catholic Church must choose a new leader. Here's how cardinals elect the next ...

A Catholic scholar explains every step of the conclave process that will determine the successor to the late Pope Francis.