Vatican workers have installed the simple stove in the Sistine Chapel where ballots will be burned during the upcoming ...

A video released by the Vatican on Saturday, Rome time, showed workers preparing inside the Sistine Chapel for the conclave, ...

The secretive process could have begun as early as Monday, but the cardinals gave themselves extra time to get to know one ...

Of the 133 cardinals with the right to vote in this conclave, 108 were created by Pope Francis and therefore will be participating in the election of a pontiff for the first time.

CITÉ DU VATICAN, Holy See (AFP) — Besides its masterpieces by Michelangelo, the Sistine Chapel is undergoing a makeover, ...

Workers have been preparing the Sistine Chapel for the upcoming conclave where a new pope will be elected, including ...

Preparations for the conclave to find a new pope accelerated Friday with the installation of the chimney out of the Sistine ...

Robert Harris praises the secret process of electing Pope Francis's success, saying political parties could learn from it.

The voting is highly choreographed and time-consuming to avoid any possibility of fraud or doubt about the results.

White smoke curled from a chimney over the Sistine Chapel at 7:06 p.m. on March 13, 2013. Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of ...

The movie "Conclave" paints a mostly accurate picture of the Roman Catholic process of electing a new pope, save for an ...