While cardinals this week said they expected a short conclave, it will likely take at least a few rounds of voting.

In 'We Have Never Been Woke,' Musa al-Gharbi seeks to untangle competing threads of discourse around identity and social ...

Artists have captured the hidden world of papal elections for centuries, turning secrecy into spectacle for the public.

Eighty years ago this month, Germany surrendered to the Allied forces. The six-year world war, and the ensuing Holocaust, ...

As cardinals work to select a new pope, Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill highlights various ways new religious leaders are chosen.

Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday, signalling that no pope had been elected as 133 cardinals ...

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York has some tips for first-timers taking part in the sometimes lengthy process of choosing ...