As a result of Francis’ expansion of the diversity of cardinals who will elect his successor, all that is certain about the ...

The death of a pope starts a centuries-old ritual involving sacred oaths by the cardinals electing a successor, the piercing ...

The task facing the cardinals today is to elect a new pope to succeed Francis, who died on April 21 at the age of 88.

As he prepares to enter the seclusion of a conclave to elect a new pope, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of ...