Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cleaners and cooks. Doctors and nurses. Drivers and elevator operators. Even florists. All the support staff for the cardinals who ...

:: Anyone found to have broken the oath will face automatic excommunication While the voting cardinals themselves will make their oaths at the Sistine Chapel when conclave begins on Wednesday (May 7), ...

Everyone from cooks to translators to elevator operators took an oath of secrecy at the Vatican on Monday — under threat of automatic excommunication — to prepare for this week’s conclave. Workers and ...

Vatican City — All the Vatican staff who will be involved in the 2025 conclave to pick the late Pope Francis' successor — from the cleaners to the cooks and custodians — have taken their oath of ...

Inside the secretive meeting, cardinals will use an array of objects, many steeped in tradition, as they elect the next pope. By Jonathan Wolfe The conclave to elect the next pope is now underway at ...

Officials and staff involved in the upcoming May 7 conclave at the Vatican have taken an oath of secrecy to ensure the integrity of the process to elect the new pontiff. As stipulated by the apostolic ...

VATICAN CITY -- The temporary chimney atop the Sistine Chapel released a plume of white smoke on Thursday evening local time, signaling that the 133 cardinals working inside had reached a two-thirds ...