There is a famous quote attributed to then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1997, in comments to a Bavarian television station.

The Vatican is streaming live views of St. Peter's Square on its YouTube channel, NBC offers a "smoke cam" and CNN created a 3D visualization.

Online betting-prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi started taking bets on who will succeed Pope Francis within hours of his April 21 death, raking in a combined $17 million and ...

SMOKE SIGNAL — In just a few hours, 133 men will pray, convene and begin a series of votes that could shape the course of human history. So will begin the much-awaited conclave to select the successor ...

The voting process to elect a new Pope gets under way in Rome later and for the second conclave in a row there will be no ...

Ten of the cardinals that will vote on who will be the next pope hail from the US. Some of them are rumored to be in the ...

The papacy is not the presidency. The conclave is not a campaign. Understanding the future of the Catholic Church requires ...