During conclave, cardinals from around the world gather in Vatican City to elect the next pope of the Catholic Church. The ...

Some kids from Chicago are hoping to meet the Pope next week. You may remember these kids from a Good News story we did this past spring about the mock conclave they held inside their classroom. Well, ...

When the Sistine Chapel's white smoke rose on May 8, it crowned not a campaigner, but a conciliator. What cardinals inside the conclave say they sought — and what they found in Robert Francis Prevost, ...

ROME – Pope Leo XIV met Monday with Peruvian Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, a conservative lightning rod whose participation in pre-conclave meetings earlier this year became a source of global ...

The BBC has commissioned the hour-long documentary special Secrets of the Conclave from Fremantle’s Wag Entertainment and Stand By Me for BBC Two and iPlayer. The special provides unprecedented access ...

History, with a capital H, effectively begins on May 8 of this year when the Sistine Chapel chimney began to puff clouds of white smoke. The 267th Pope is a surprise: an American with a ...

When Pope Francis died in April on Easter Monday, the news triggered not only an outpouring of mourners but also a centuries-old tradition shrouded in secrecy: the papal conclave. Two weeks later 133 ...

Pope Leo XIV has shared his thoughts during the conclave that elected him, saying he resigned himself to the inevitable and ...