PHOTO SLIDE SHOW: In preparation for the conclave to elect a new pope, workers build platforms over a protective covering on the marble floor of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican May 2, 2025.

Over two days, the council convened to approve a document for the synod's final implementation stage intended to improve ...

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The former cardinal attended Holy Mass, celebrated for his eventual election as the new pope in St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, May 7, 2025. (REUTERS/Murad Sezer) ...

Cardinals will on Tuesday begin to move into the Vatican accommodation where they will stay during the conclave, on the eve of their historic, secretive meeting to elect a new pope. In the wake of ...

The election of Pope Gregory X in 1271 took two years and nine months. The cardinals had gathered in the city of Viterbo, about 50 miles north of Rome, where Pope Clement IV died in 1268.

We have white smoke! 133 voting cardinals elect a new pope on Thursday, May 8, 2025, on the second day of the conclave. Cardinal Robert Prevost has become the 267th pope, the first U.S. pontiff in ...

The papal conclave is private election held behind closed doors of Vatican City's Sistine Chapel, ... If he is, the new pope chooses a papal name and is dressed in papal vestments.

Diego Giovanni Ravelli, Master of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations, closes the doors of the Sistine chapel as the conclave to elect a new Pope starts, at St Peter's Square in The Vatican, May 7 ...

Vatican installs new chimney to signal pick of next pope Ahead of the election of the next pope, a chimney was installed atop the Sistine Chapel on Friday, which will help notify the public of the ...

The Vatican said more than 180 participated in the fifth informal meeting in Rome on Monday. A smaller group of 135, known as the College of Cardinals, is eligible to elect a new pope. THIS IS A ...

Almost four years after Pope Francis opened the Catholic Church's path toward synodality -- a term many in the church had ...