Roman Catholic conclave Stories

Made a cardinal by Pope Francis in 2023, he has given few media interviews and rarely speaks in public.

Aged 69 and originally from Chicago, Prevost has spent most of his career as a missionary in Peru and became a cardinal only in 2023.

The election came on the first full day of voting by the 133 cardinal electors, who secluded themselves behind the Vatican's medieval walls on Wednesd...

This was an hour more than it took for smoke to be seen after the first vote in the 2013 conclave that picked the late Pope Francis.

The clarification comes amid earlier reports suggesting that Cardinal Njue had not received an invitation to participate in the conclave.

Two cardinals, one from Spain and one from Kenya, will not be joining the conclave for health reasons, the Vatican said.

There were 135 cardinals aged under 80 when Francis died and are thereby eligible to take part in the conclave, but it is not known if all of them wil...