Papal conclaves have featured calls of election fraud and bribery so gauche that riches were wheeled in on donkey carts.

Intelligence agencies have long gathered information to help their governments get a sense of who the next pope might be ...

Cardinal-electors take an oath to maintain “absolute and perpetual secrecy” concerning “all matters directly or indirectly ...

In case you were wondering if this concern was a new one, the second issue ever of America featured an editorial on papal conclaves in which the editors argued (wait for it) that Austria ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... Luis Antonio Tagle are among the favourites to succeed Pope Francis ahead of the Papal Conclave, which begins on ...

White smoke billowed over the Vatican on the first full day of voting, but this was not quite the fastest conclave in history.

The special chimney that gets temporarily installed every conclave dates back to the 1700s, according to ... the New Pope? Fact-Checking the Oscar-Winning Movie However, as conclaves came and ...

Pope Leo XIV reopened the papal apartment, sealed since Francis’ death. The pope’s residence hasn’t always been in the ...

Most job selection processes don’t have centuries of history behind them ... line with the pattern of recent past pope elections. Data shows that conclaves don’t take as long as they ...

“His murder began what most historians would agree was the worst period in the history of the papacy,” Frederic J. Baumgartner wrote in his book, “Behind Locked Doors: A History of the Papal ...

The pomp and ceremony of a papal conclave — the flutter of cardinals gathering in their red robes, the crowds at the Vatican awaiting the white smoke that proceeds the proclamation from a ...