VATICAN CITY (AP) — One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls ...

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The Papal Conclave becomes a magnet for tourists to visit the Vatican, even though the process of electing a new Pope to ...

The Swiss Guard, the pope’s iconic bodyguards, look ceremonial but in the pageantry of the Renaissance-style uniform lies the ...

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

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Papal conclave ballots have been burned to maintain secrecy for centuries. Ballot smoke has been used to announce a decision since 1914.

The duration of the conclave is determined by how the cardinal electors reach the required two thirds of the votes or 89 ...

With the conclave to elect the new pope beginning in Vatican City on Wednesday, following the death of Francis I on 21 April, ...

The secretive Vatican conclave to elect a new pope has begun, as 133 cardinals gather under intense security, ancient rituals ...