BST - white smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney will signal when they've chosen a new pope.

On Friday, Vatican firefighters were observed on the chapel roof installing the chimney, a crucial step in the preparations for the May 7 conclave. The chimney plays a key role in communicating the ...

In total, 133 cardinals will be voting during conclave, the most electors ever. LONDON and VATICAN CITY -- All eyes are on Vatican City Tuesday with just over a day to go until the start of the ...

Francis had struggled to bring some transparency to the Vatican’s shadowy balance sheet. Now, in the final weeks of his life, advisers were filtering in and out of his austere reception room ...

an Argentine ice cream maker whose store is located around the corner from Francis' austere hotel room in Vatican City. He recalled how close he and his family felt to Francis, who often gave ...

In the most upbeat bulletin in days, the Vatican said Francis had resumed work from his hospital room, calling a parish in Gaza City that he has kept in touch with since the war there began.

But he insisted on soldiering on, including when he visited inmates at a prison in Rome on Holy Thursday, sources told the outlet’s Italian-born Vatican correspondent, Elisabetta Pique.

VATICAN CITY — There may have been no women ... There are around 600,000 Catholic nuns around the world, and they dedicate their lives to a variety of religious services, like charitable work ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals from around the world gathered in the Vatican on Wednesday for the start of the conclave, the centuries-old secret voting ritual to elect a new pope to ...

Several famous and well-visited locations within Vatican City have been transformed for the conclave. Here’s a map of the key locations ... Catholic church in the world, St. Peter’s Basilica ...

Cardinals are locked in and isolated from the outside world ... Vatican apartments and even chamber pots. Thanks to reforms later introduced by John Paul II, each cardinal now gets a private room ...

the papers will be burned and black smoke will indicate to the world that no pope was elected. The cardinals will go back to their Vatican residence for the night and return to the Sistine Chapel ...