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

Cardinals have handed in their mobile phones and taken oaths of secrecy as they begin the secret Conclave to decide the next ...

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 ...

More than 130 cardinals, from 70 countries, will enter the Sistene Chapel this afternoon ahead of a first vote to elect a ...

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.

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

The conclave began exactly 16 days after the death of 88-year-old Pope Francis, who led the world's 1.4 billion Catholics for ...

The ideological center of the wealthiest, most powerful country would appear to justify a cardinal. What factors are at play?

The doors of the Sistine Chapel were shut and locked to the public after all 133 cardinal electors took the oath of secrecy, ...