It’s also densely populated, thanks to those thrifty Poles who filled the streets adjacent to Lincoln with Polish Flats, small cottages raised one-half-story to add basement apartments ...

That has not happened since it took five days to elect Pope Pius XI in 1922; Pope Francis was elected after two days of voting in 2013. The faithful who have gathered in Vatican City will be on ...

Only 2 conclaves have lasted up to five days since 1900s Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, only two conclaves have lasted up to five days − Pope Pius XI's conclave in 1922 and Pope Pius X ...

VATICAN CITY — How long does it take to choose a pope? In this case ... ending with the election of Pius XI in 1922. The shortest was the conclave that elected Pius XII in 1939, which took ...

Several popes have explicitly paid homage to Leo XIII’s writings. In 1931, Pope Pius XI issued his encyclical “Quadragesimo Anno,” or “40th Anniversary,” commemorating Rerum Novarum’s ...

The previous pope, Pius X, had mandated in 1904 that all papers related to the election, not just the ballots, be burned, "thus producing a great deal more white smoke for the final ballot and ...