A papal conclave blends the political and the spiritual, cardinals and theologians say. Here, in Catholic belief, is how the ...

Habemus papam, Ozarks. Or rather, “We have a Pope, Ozarks.” In speed with the news of Cardinal Robert Prevost’s election as ...

Invoking the help of the Holy Spirit and recognizing that millions of people all over the world were praying for them, 133 ...

When the cardinals gather in the Pauline Chapel and process to the Sistine Chapel on May 7 to begin the process of choosing a ...

As the world awaits the historic moment where white smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, Catholics in Manila ...

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves Wednesday behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to ...

More than 130 Catholic cardinals on Wednesday began the secretive, centuries-old ritual to elect a successor to Pope Francis, ...

Come, Holy Spirit. The process of selecting a pope is ... writing in 2013 on the conclave that elected Francis, praised the prayers of Saint Ignatius. “If you put a lot of thought, time, and ...

Sistine Chapel, where they will vote in secret and silence, a process designed to be both contemplative and free from outside ...