Holden said people have bet on the pope since the 15th Century. This year, there were markets on who the pope will be, where he’s from and how many rounds of voting the conclave would go through.

Cardinals prepared to cast fresh votes Thursday for the next head of the Catholic Church, after sending up a second round of ...

Black smoke seen over Sistine Chapel after first vote for Pope undecided - More than 100 cardinals have gathered for a secret ...

A conclave of as many as 250 Catholic cardinals at the Vatican produced black smoke, indicating no result, following the ...

Following Pope Francis's death, the papal apartments were sealed, but with Pope Leo XIV's election, they've been reopened after a decade of vacancy. The Apostolic Palace, a historic building with ...

Pope Leo XIV laid out the vision of his papacy Saturday, identifying artificial intelligence as one of the most critical ...