The first day of the conclave ended without a decision on the next pope. Here's what's next for the cardinal electors.

The door to the Sistine Chapel closed as the cardinals begin the process of choosing the new pope. The conclave starting ...

The cardinals participating in the most geographically diverse conclave in the faith’s 2,000-year history took just one round of voting Wednesday evening.

Follow live coverage as Catholic cardinals elect the next Pope in the highly secretive conclave to lead the Vatican following ...

People react in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican after black smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, where 133 cardinals are gathering on the first day of the conclave, indicating that ...

A group of 133 Cardinals are making their way from their rooms into the Sistine Chapel where they will have no contact with ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The great doors of the Sistine Chapel shut Wednesday after the cry of “extra omnes” — Latin for “all out” ...

Catholic cardinals gathered in Vatican City to cast their first vote as part of the conclave to elect the successor to Pope ...

One hundred and thirty-three cardinals sequestered themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for a conclave to elect a ...

On Wednesday, the Vatican released black smoke after no candidate received a two-thirds majority to become the new Pope.

I think that one of the principal challenges that the new pope will have is that we live in a world that’s increasingly ...

Gathering under the soaring frescoes of Renaissance masters and a blanket of intense seclusion, 133 red-robed cardinals made a solemn procession into the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on Wednesday to ...