In the pre-conclave process, cardinals – played by the likes of Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, and John Lithgow in the film – ...

The meeting of the College of Cardinals, where the next head of the Catholic Church will be selected, is scheduled to take ...

The Vatican prepared for the conclave to pick the next pope with the installation of a Sistine Chapel chimney. ABC News' Ines de La Cuetara takes a look at the front runners.

The universal church is on full display during the waiting-for-white-smoke period. Watchers who gather at St. Peter's Square ...

There is high expectation among the Catholic faithful across the globe as the processes to announce the successor of the late Pope Francis will commence on Wednesday May 7 in the Vatican. This is ...

The preparations are all leading up to the solemn pageantry of the start of the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis ...

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

Besides its masterpieces by Michelangelo, the Sistine Chapel is undergoing a makeover, involving the installation of a stove ...

Ahead of the election of the next pope, a chimney was installed atop the Sistine Chapel on Friday, which will help notify the ...

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

V atican workers have installed a stove in the Sistine Chapel to burn ballots during the conclave to elect a new pope, set to ...

Stoves have been installed in the Sistine Chapel that will generate smoke, marking the progress of the conclave's mission to choose a new pope.