No Pope Elected in Conclave’s First Vote. The Vatican conclave will continue on Thursday with as many as four more rounds of voting. A two-thirds majority of the 133 cardinals is required to ...

The term conclave comes from the Latin term “con clavis”, meaning “with a key”, a reference to the tradition of locking the cardinals away until a new pope is elected.

A nun shelters from the rain as she follows a final Mass celebrated by cardinals inside St. Peter’s Basilica before the conclave to elect a new pope, in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican ...

For Robert Prevost, summer has turned out very differently than he imagined. Robert Prevost never imagined that the conclave ...

Who votes for a pope? Only cardinals under the age of 80 are eligible to vote in a conclave. They are known as the cardinal electors, and their number is 135.

A nun shelters from the rain as she follows a final Mass celebrated by cardinals inside St. Peter’s Basilica before the conclave to elect a new pope, in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican ...

Newly elected Pope Francis, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina, appears on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica after being elected by the conclave of cardinals at the Vatican, March 13, 2013.

A nun shelters from the rain as she follows a final Mass celebrated by cardinals inside St. Peter’s Basilica before the conclave to elect a new pope, in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican ...

The death of Pope Francis paves the way for one of the most secretive events in human history, as depicted in the papal thriller "Conclave." ...

A nun shelters from the rain as she follows a final Mass celebrated by cardinals inside St. Peter’s Basilica before the conclave to elect a new pope, in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican ...