While a pope can be elected on the first vote it has not happened in centuries. The last three conclaves, held in 2013, 2005 ...

Cardinals from around the world have sequestered in order to pick a new pope following the death of Pope Francis.

In voting in Canada and Australia, right-wing parties that borrowed from the MAGA playbook were punished. Elsewhere, ...

All eyes are on Vatican City Tuesday with just over a day to go until the start of the papal conclave to elect the 267th pope ...

George Simion bucked a recent trend of voters around the world punishing candidates seen as friendly to President Trump.

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday begin the secretive, ...

Here's how it works, a list of contenders to become the next pope and how many conclaves there have been in the last 100 ...

The U.S. president and his policies have loomed large in elections in Australia, Canada, Germany, Greenland and elsewhere.

USA TODAY will stream coverage of the conclave on its YouTube channel, available here or at the embed below. The first day's livestream is scheduled to run from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday, May 7 ...

On Thursday, they were expected to begin voting from around 9 a.m. (0700 GMT), according ... During the conclave, cardinals are sequestered from the world and sworn to secrecy, their phones ...

One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a ...