Next Pope is ‘everybody’s guess’ before Cardinals gather for oath of secrecy and first vote - Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin ...

St. Peter’s Square was bustling on Wednesday morning despite the gray clouds trickling occasional raindrops over Vatican City ...

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves Wednesday behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to elect the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, a successor to Pope ...

The cardinals are being sequestered from the outside world, their cellphones surrendered and airwaves around the Vatican ...

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 ...

Catholics Katie Prejean McGrady, David Deavel, and Dr. Marcus Peter talk about the conclave that will elect a new pope.

The papal conclave begins on Wednesday to choose the next pope to lead the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. It comes less than ...

USA TODAY will stream coverage of the conclave on its YouTube channel, available here or at the embed below. The first day's ...

The conclave officially commences Wednesday, May 7 at 4 a.m. ET (10 a.m. in Rome) with a mass in Saint Peter's Basilica. The ...