Joseph Tobin, progressive archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, who was close to Pope Francis and made a cardinal under his papacy in 2016. Tobin is one of 10 American cardinals who will vote in conclave.

As cardinals, all men, started the conclave, a group of campaigners released pink smoke in a park overlooking St. Peter's Basilica to demand that women be allowed to seek ordination.

The cardinals are sealed inside the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City for the conclave to elect a new pope — but no winner emerged Wednesday night as black smoke billowed up from the Sistine Chapel ...

The Catholic cardinals meeting for the conclave are locked in the Sistine Chapel — one of the grandest buildings in the Western world. But their meals are decidedly less elegant. The food at the ...

Joseph Tobin, progressive archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, who was close to Pope Francis and made a cardinal under his papacy in 2016. Tobin is one of 10 American cardinals who will vote in conclave.

Only cardinals under 80 years of age can attend a conclave, but all cardinals can attend the general congregations. In 2013, they met seven times over a period of five days.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Cardinals told RNS they now have a better sense of each other, despite having had little familiarity before the general congregations — the last of which was Tuesday (May 6).

Not every cardinal can vote in the conclave: Those who choose the next pope must be younger than 80 years old, for instance. Of the 252 cardinals at the time of Francis' death, 135 are electors.

Released in Oct. 2024 and propelled back into relevance by the passing of Pope Francis, “Conclave” includes a star-studded ...

According to Cardijnal Ambongo, he worked with the head of the DDF, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, and with Pope Francis ...

Ralph Fiennes wonders what Pope Leo XIV thought of 'Conclave' after watching it ahead of his historic election as the first ...

Under a bright sun, around an altar set up at centerfield, more than a dozen priests and bishops led by Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich concelebrated a special Mass for the election of a first-ever ...