It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that ended the longest papal election in the ...

The secret vote that elected Pope Gregory X lasted from November 1268 to September 1271. It was the first example of a papal ...

First of all, the conclave has a rule that if the voting takes too long, then a pope can be elected with a 50+1 percent of ...

Trump mocking Pope Francis' death? POTUS posts AI image in papal attire. It was 1268, twenty cardinals met in the Italian ...

In the 13th century, it took almost three years — 1,006 days to be exact — to choose Pope Clement IV’s successor, making it the longest conclave in the Catholic Church’s history.