With over 400,000 Catholic priests worldwide, out of them, just 252 are cardinals. Only 133 "cardinals electors" are expected to cast ballots in the conclave; cardinals age 80 and over cannot vote. Of ...

Day 2 of the papal conclave, the election to select Pope Francis' successor, has begun inside the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. Cardinal electors will cast their ballots for the new Bishop of Rome.

Following the death of Pope Francis in 2025, there was a renewed interest in the process involved in electing a new pope. If you want to know more about the topic and you also enjoy a good ...

Conclave-hive is so back. Although the papal drama didn’t exactly clean up at the Oscars, it’s become an even bigger force in pop culture in the months since. Even the newly elected pope was spending ...

Robert Harris, the author of the novel that inspired the 2024 film Conclave, has said that the process to elect a new pope is the closest thing to a real-life version of the deception game show The ...

The election of Pope Leo XIV in May 2025 was followed by a modest rise in the sense of meaning in life among a sample of ...

A new papal election — known as the conclave — is set to begin following Pope Francis' death. The method the Catholic Church uses to elect its leader has stayed almost the same for 800 years.

Would you like to know how much Pope Leo XIV won by? Or which cardinals supported him? Or who else got votes? Or how many? Or what coalitions formed? Or who played kingmaker? Officially, you can’t, ...

The seagulls have caught the public eye on the Vatican's livestream of the papal election for the next pontiff Vatican Media The Sistine Chapel seagulls are becoming the stars of the 2025 papal ...

As Hyperallergic’s resident adult Catholic convert, I am obliged to bring you my insight on the papal conclave unfolding before our eyes via screens big and small. That’s right, you read that ...