Wearing bright red vestments, the cardinals processed down the central aisle of the basilica as the Sistine Chapel’s boys’ ...

The death of Pope Francis has ignited widespread online curiosity about the process of electing the next leader of the ...

Once they are closed in the chapel will have no communication with the outside world until a new pope is elected.

On Wednesday afternoon, red-hatted clerics who carry the same weight and dignity as princes within the Catholic Church ...

The conclave to select the next pope has begun after Catholic cardinals from across the world filed into the Sistine Chapel ...

Catholic cardinals are filing into the Sistine Chapel for the start of the conclave to elect a new pope to follow Pope ...

Cardinals have handed in their mobile phones and taken oaths of secrecy as they begin the secret conclave to decide the next ...

Cardinals start procession to Sistine Chapel to begin secret vote for new pope - Some 133 Cardinals begin their secretive ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals began the centuries-old ritual to ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday began the secretive, ...

Catholic cardinals who will choose the next pope filed into the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, before locking themselves away ...