Discover the meaning behind conclave, Camerlengo and more terms used as the Catholic Church prepares for a new leader ...

Pope Francis's death sets an ancient machinery into motion. Soon, with a puff of smoke, the last absolute monarchy in Europe ...

Pope Francis's death sets an ancient machinery into motion. Soon, with a puff of smoke, the last absolute monarchy in Europe ...

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With the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday, what comes next in selecting a new leader for the Roman Catholic Church?

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Francis died just over a month after his 12th anniversary as pope. He had the ninth longest papacy of the past 200 years.

His predecessor, Pope Benedict, stepped down from the papacy in 2013, a decision that had not been made by someone of his ...

The Oscar-winning film is about the papal selection process. But how accurate is it to real life? Rev. Thomas Reese and ...

Even though cardinals don’t campaign for the job, there are always front-runners going into a conclave to choose the next pope.

Conclaves are usually short, such as the three-ballot election that chose Pope Pius XII in 1939. On a few occasions, deliberations have been quite long – the longest being the 1740 papal conclave, ...

Pope Francis, a reformer who rattled the Catholic Church's conservatives and inspired some progressives, has died.