With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday began the ...

The 133 cardinals from 70 countries will be locked inside the Sistine Chapel, where they will vote in secret and silence, a ...

The election for a new pope continues as black smoke above the Sistine Chapel signals that the cardinals have cast their ...

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

Youngstown Bishop David Bonnar held a special Mass in Massillon on Wednesday to pray for the men assigned to choose the next pope.

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday began centuries-old rituals to elect a successor to Pope Francis, celebrating a morning Mass ...

A conclave of as many as 250 Catholic cardinals at the Vatican produced black smoke, indicating no result, following the ...

Black smoke was pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave ...

The cardinal leading the last mass before a conclave to elect a new pope urged his peers Wednesday to choose someone able to ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday ...

All eyes are on the chimney over the Sistine Chapel for signs of white smoke that will herald the election of a new pope.