Vote For Pope

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  "Historic Crack In Stained Glass Ceiling": Pope Allows Women To Vote At Bishops Meet

  Women and lay people will be able to vote in the next general assembly of bishops, the Vatican announced Wednesday, in a symbolic change for the Catholic Church.

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  After Minorities Vote for Change of Power, Pope Francis Visits Sri Lanka

  Pope Francis arrived in Sri Lanka today on a 3-day visit. He was received by the newly elected president Maithripala Sirisena.

• Black smoke signals inconclusive papal vote

  Black smoke rose from above the Sistine Chapel for a second day on Wednesday after a secret conclave of cardinals held two more inconclusive votes for a new pope to lead the troubled Church.

• Cardinals begin first full day of papal conclave

  After a first inconclusive vote, Cardinals began the process of choosing a new pope in earnest on Wednesday, praying for inspiration at the start of the first full day in a conclave to choose a leader to face a major crisis in the Catholic Church.

• Living ex-pope an invisible presence at conclave

  Retired pope Benedict XVI is gone but far from forgotten as cardinals begin voting for candidates to replace him, with his personal secretary Georg Gaenswein one of the last to leave the Sistine Chapel before the start of the conclave.

• 67 cardinals will vote for the first time in the papal conclave, Father Theodore Mascarenhas tells NDTV

  As the cardinals prepare to elect the next Pope, NDTV speaks with Father Theodore Mascarenhas, Pontificate Council for Culture, in Vatican. Father Mascarenhas, who is an Indian, speaks about the country's representation in the Vatican and reveals some interesting trivia on the conclave.

• India, Asia's unlikely powerbroker in papal vote

  India's Catholics may account for less than two percent of the country's population but they will be Asia's most powerful voice in the election to choose a new pope.

• Vatican readies for conclave to elect new pope

  The Vatican on Saturday installed a special chimney on the Sistine Chapel from which white smoke will signal the election of a new pope as cardinals prepare for the historic vote next week after Benedict XVI's resignation.

• No date decided for conclave to elect new pope

  The Vatican on Wednesday said no date had been set for a conclave to elect a new pope and that all the 115 "cardinal electors" expected to take part in the vote will only be in Rome on Thursday.

• Papal vote preparations begin in earnest at Vatican

  Roman Catholic cardinals filed into the Vatican on Monday for preliminary meetings to sketch an identikit for the next pope and ponder who among them might be best to lead a church beset by crises.

• Cardinal says Latin American or African pope possible

  Cardinal Kurt Koch, a close aide of Pope Benedict who will cast his vote for the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church, says there is no reason why the new pontiff cannot be African or Latin American.

• Deep rifts set up drawn-out papal vote: experts

  What would appear at first glance to be a cakewalk for a staunch conservative, to follow in the footsteps of Pope Benedict XVI, will be anything but Vatican experts say.

• Pope Benedict XVI resigns: Two Kerala cardinals among those who'll vote for a new Pope

  Two cardinals from Kerala are among the four from the country to leave for Vatican to cast their vote in elections for a new pope to replace Pope Benedict XVI, the leader of the Catholic Church, who has announced that he would step down in view of advanced age.