and Gregory VI in 1046. Vatican officials subsequently released updates indicating that Pope Francis' condition is improving, albeit amid some concerns. On Thursday, the Pope was said to have ...

Due to political turmoil, it took more than two years to elect Pope Gregory X in 1271 ... It was not always this way. Pope Paul VI introduced the threshold in 1970 and it has remained so ever ...

After the death of Gregory XI in 1378, the cardinals elected Pope Urban VI but soon regretted it. A few months later, they deposed him and elected a new pope. Catholics now had two popes ...

Prevost is one of 137 special bishops able to vote to elect a new pope. And Cardinal Wilton Gregory, 77, the socially progressive archbishop of Washington, D.C., until retiring in January ...