This has been a blockbuster election year politically, so it’s fitting that a new movie shines a light on an ancient and ...

Black smoke billows from the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel on March 13, 2013, indicating ... to see the new movie ...

In the new THR feature The Watchers, a group of Catholic Church experts come together to break down what’s actually going on in the new Ralph Fiennes drama.

As recently as 2013, one or some cardinal electors ... following the standard process of holding the conclave wherever the prior pope died (many cardinals were part of the traveling Roman Curia).

the papal conclave is held at the historic Sistine Chapel, which has been the case since 1878, when Leo XIII was elected. The ...

For centuries, the papal conclave has used smoke to communicate ... The white smoke tradition was on full display in 2013 ...

Based on a bestselling novel by Robert Harris, the Oscar-tipped film imagines what goes on behind the scenes of the secretive process – complete with scheming, smearing and leaking.

“Conclave” is hardly the first film to involve a papal election ... adding that he began his research when Francis was elected in 2013. “I thought he was an interesting figure to take ...

For Harris, the seed of the novel was planted while he was watching television coverage of the 2013 conclave during which the current Pope Francis was elected. As he watched the faces of the ...