Explore historical trivia behind the longest conclave and the shortest, the oldest pope and the youngest and a handful of ...

VATICAN CITY — "Conclave" the film may have introduced moviegoers to the spectacular ritual and drama of a modern conclave, ...

The papacy has traditionally been held by cardinals, but exceptions exist. Historical trivia surrounding papal conclaves ...

It's also where the term conclave comes from — "under lock and key," because the cardinals who were meeting in Viterbo, north of Rome, took so long the town's ... in whose sight each person ...

It's also where the term conclave comes from — "under lock and key," because the cardinals who were meeting in Viterbo, north of Rome, took so long the town's ... in whose sight each person ...

Between 1378-1417, referred by historians to as the Western Schism, there were rival claimants to the title of pope. The ...