The Catholic Church's cardinal electors entered the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican to choose a successor to Pope Francis, as the 2025 papal conclave begins.

Everyone from cooks to translators to elevator operators took an oath of secrecy at the Vatican on Monday — under threat of automatic excommunication — to prepare for this week's conclave.

Inside the Vatican’s High-Tech Plan to Keep Conclave for New Pope Secret Phone signals in Vatican City will be cut throughout the duration of the conclave, with one small exception ...

Some of Pope Francis’ last words were a heartfelt expression of thanks to his personal health care assistant, the Vatican revealed Tuesday. The 88-year-old pontiff, who died Monday from a stroke ...

The Vatican Museums on Thursday unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms, the spectacularly frescoed reception rooms of the Apostolic Palace that in some ways rival the ...

The Vatican and the AARP — the American organization that advocates for those over 50 — are teaming up for the first-ever global symposium on aging, hosted at the Holy See.

Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the Vatican camerlengo, read the announcement of Pope Francis' death at age 88. Read the full text here.

The issuing of sede vacante stamps dates from 1929. The stamps include an image the Vatican uses between popes: two crossed keys but no papal headgear.

A Vatican tribunal on Wednesday defended its 2023 decision to convict a senior Catholic cardinal of misappropriation of funds, saying the prelate was "aware of all the steps" in a botched $200 ...

Cardinals will gather to elect Pope Francis' successor on May 7. Here's how to watch the Vatican live.

Pope Francis on Wednesday thanked members of the medical team who saved his life during a five-week hospital stay for a serious case of double pneumonia, speaking softly but breathing without ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The so-called “sede vacante” stamps include an image used by the Vatican in official documents in periods between popes: two crossed keys but no papal headgear.