Over 130 voting cardinals must decide whether to continue in the direction of Francis or elect a pope likely to choose a more ...

Firefighters installed the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel on Friday which will emit white smoke to signal the election of a ...

On the eve of the conclave to elect the next pope, the world's smallest country, Vatican City, is engulfed in commotion as cardinals and pilgrims descend.

The conclave that begins in Vatican City on Wednesday is the process of electing the next leader of the world's 1 .

More than 130 cardinals from all over the world are gathering today for the papal conclave, through which a new head of the ...

There will then be a midmorning prayer in the Sistine Chapel and voting ... and Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, 76, of Ghana, who would be the first pope from sub-Saharan Africa.

Some 133 Catholic cardinals will gather below Michelangelo's famed frescoes in the 15th-century chapel, situated inside the Apostolic Palace at the ... Francis -- and Ghana's Peter Turkson are ...