"But I thought just maybe, for Pope Francis, it mattered that we had more cardinals who are really grounded there." Cardinal ...

Never in the history of the Roman Catholic Church has there been an American pope, but now, one name has been coming up as a ...

So that means some foods were banned or carefully inspected at previous conclaves, including whole roast chicken, stuffed ...

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

There are two votes daily in the conclave. WITN will continue to follow the results of each session of voting.

Here's how the conclave creates black and white smoke and why the Catholic Church began using them to signal whether a new pope has been elected.

With the conclave underway, PBS News has a live video of the chimney on the Sistine Chapel as the world waits for white smoke ...

"This is probably the most diverse and representative of the entire world that the College of Cardinals has ever been." 133 Cardinals from all over the world will be sequestered inside the Sistine ...

Thick black smoke emerged Wednesday (May 7) from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in a sign that cardinals had failed to ...

Catholic cardinals who will choose the next pope were locked behind the heavy wood doors of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, ...

Cardinals have no contact with the outside world after the master of liturgical ceremonies utters the words “Extra Omnes” the ...

Some Catholics and Non-Catholics in Greensburg tell Channel 11’s Andrew Havranek the next Pope has big shoes to fill.