Tens of thousands of travellers have descended on the city for the funeral of Pope Francis and the election of a new pontiff.

Phone signal will be cut off at 3 p.m. local time (9 a.m. ET) on Wednesday, an hour and a half before the cardinals are scheduled to proceed to the Sistine Chapel to begin the papal conclave, Italian ...

The secretive election to choose a new pope will begin on May 7. A group of 133 cardinals – the so-called “Princes of the Church” – will gather inside the Sistine Chapel at the heart of the Vatican to ...

On the morning of May 7 the conclave will commence, with all the cardinals present, with the Holy Mass for the Election of ...

Following the death of Pope Francis on April 21, 133 cardinal electors will gather on Wednesday in the Sistine Chapel for an ...