It’s part bureaucracy, part democracy, part theocracy, and part epic drama. The election of a new Pope, spiritual leader of ...

Here are some of the key words and phrases that will be used throughout the interregnum, especially the conclave to elect the ...

Pope Francis has died at the age of 88 - here is the process of events following the death of a pope and how a new pope is ...

Pope Francis, the first Jesuit and Latin American pope, has passed away, marking the start of a significant transition in the ...

The method the Catholic Church uses to select their leader has remained virtually unchanged for the last 800 years ...

New video footage from the Vatican shows the sealing of the papal apartments after the death of Pope Francis. The first pope ...

The election of popes dates back earlier than the 6th century, with the rules ... A conclave lasts until a new pope is elected. The election of Pope Gregory X in 1271 took three years to decide ...

The work of early Irish scholars and computists in developing mathematical tables helped to solve the thorny problems of ...

Writer and author Paul Cuddihy looks back on the five Pontiffs of his lifetime and at the question of who will replace the late Pope Francis.