Catholic cardinals from around the world gathered in the Vatican on Wednesday for the start of the conclave, the ...

The conclave to elect a new pope has officially begun, with a Vatican official calling out “extra omnes” and the door to the ...

Cardinals have no contact with the outside world after the master of liturgical ceremonies utters the words “Extra Omnes” the ...

Mass was held in St. Peter’s Basilica hours before 133 cardinals begin the conclave to select the man who will replace Pope ...

In his regulations for the conclave, St. John Paul II wrote that in the Sistine Chapel, “everything is conducive to an ...