Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cardinals from across the world have one task starting this week. Electing a new pope. Pope Francis died at age 88 and served as ...

ROME, VATICAN - MARCH 13: Black smoke rises fron the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on March 13, 2013 in the morning of the second day of the conclave. (Photo by Guido MARZILLA/Gamma-Rapho via Getty ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are 135 cardinals eligible to vote in the conclave - Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Europe The secretive election to choose a new ...

All eyes are on Vatican City as the Roman Catholic Church began the secretive voting process — called the conclave — on May 7 to elect a new pope. The selection process for a new pontiff comes after ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals on Monday set May 7 as the start date for the conclave to elect Pope Francis’ successor, delaying the secret voting for two days so they can get to know one ...

The whole world mourned when news broke of Pope Francis’s death on April 21. The 88-year-old head of the Catholic Church was admired even by nonbelievers as a man of progressive values leading the ...

Soon Catholic cardinals from around the world will convene at the Sistine Chapel to elect a new pope to lead the Church. When will the papal conclave start? The conclave to elect Pope Francis ...

Editor's note: Click here to view the conclave schedule for Thursday, May 8. There is no timeline for the decision − Pope Francis was chosen in one day in 2013, while the election of Pope Gregory X in ...