After every two rounds of voting in the Sistine Chapel, the ballots of the cardinals are burned in a special furnace to ...

The voting is highly choreographed and time-consuming to avoid any possibility of fraud or doubt about the results.

Leading the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church. Location: Vatican City. There are no official candidates for the papacy, but ...

Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle has replaced Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin as the new favorite to become the next pope ...