The Vatican's papal conclave to choose a new spiritual leader for the world's 1.4 billion Catholics is governed by procedures ...

Cardinals from all over the world began voting Wednesday to elect a new pope -- but what's the cost of finding a new leader ...

No pope has been elected on the first day of a conclave for centuries and voting could continue for several days before the ...

Much of the world’s attention is on the Vatican, where conclave has begun and cardinals are meeting to select a successor to ...

Cardinals begin secret election to choose new Pope in Sistine Chapel - In the pre-conclave Mass, senior cardinal Giovanni ...

Msgr. Guido Marini, master of papal liturgical ceremonies, closes the doors to the Vatican's Sistine Chapel March 12, 2013, as cardinals from around the world begin the conclave to elect a successor ...

BREAKING: 133 red-robed cardinals from around the world have filed into the Sistine Chapel, and the doors sealed behind them.

As 133 cardinals enter the Sistine Chapel to begin voting for a new pope, the church's problems and perplexities remain bigger than the sum of the questions posed in the days since Francis died.

Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become the next pope.

Here & Now 's Scott Tong speaks with Catholic historian David Gibson from St. Peter's Square in the Vatican as cardinals begin their conclave to elect the next pope to lead the Roman Catholic Church.

The conclave to select the new pope will begin on Wednesday behind the closed doors of the Sistine Chapel after the passing ...