On Wednesday afternoon, red-hatted clerics who carry the same weight and dignity as princes within the Catholic Church ...

Cardinal electors are meeting in the Sistine Chapel to vote on a new Pope until they have a two-thirds majority. NBC News ...

Cardinals have handed in their mobile phones and taken oaths of secrecy as they begin the secret Conclave to decide the next ...

BREAKING: 133 red-robed cardinals from around the world have filed into the Sistine Chapel, and the doors sealed behind them.

As 133 cardinals enter the Sistine Chapel to begin voting for a new pope, the church's problems and perplexities remain bigger than the sum of the questions posed in the days since Francis died.

"The whole church, united with us in prayer, insistently invokes the grace of the Holy Spirit so that a worthy pastor for the flock of Christ would be elected." ...

Here & Now 's Scott Tong speaks with Catholic historian David Gibson from St. Peter's Square in the Vatican as cardinals begin their conclave to elect the next pope to lead the Roman Catholic Church.

Much of the world’s attention is on the Vatican, where conclave has begun and cardinals are meeting to select a successor to ...

The conclave began exactly 16 days after the death of 88-year-old Pope Francis, who led the world's 1.4 billion Catholics for ...

The papal conclave is beginning Wednesday at the Vatican, as 133 cardinal electors undertake the solemn task of choosing the next leader of the Catholic Church.

The ideological center of the wealthiest, most powerful country would appear to justify a cardinal. What factors are at play?