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Cardinals returned to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to resume voting for a new pope after the first conclave ballot failed ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Before he died, Pope Francis donated one of his popemobiles ... Vatican’s Caritas charitable federation released photos of the repurposed vehicle on Monday.

With Laudato Si’: On the Care of Our Common Home, Pope Francis echoed the words of St. Francis of Assisi ... breathing pollutant-free air, having a stable ecosystem, having predictable weather ...

The next vote will take place at about 17:30 (16:30 BST) - no smoke will signal no decision has been reached, white smoke ...

White smoke billowed from the Sistine Chape l and St. Peter's bells chimed around 6 p.m. local time in Rome on May 8, ...

When the conclave’s cardinals finish casting their ballots under Michelangelo’s frescoed ceilings of the Sistine Chapel, the 267th pope will have to decide whether to continue Francis ...

St Francis is often considered an animal lover (that apparently oh-so-English virtue!). In fact, as Franciscans will quickly tell us, he is so much more than that — he was a radical theologian ...

Vatican firefighters have installed the iconic chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, a key step ahead of the May 7 conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor. Black smoke = no pope yet; white smoke = a new ...

The president shrugged off backlash to an artificial intelligence-generated image that depicted him as the pope. One expert in religious studies weighs in.