Hundreds of cardinals attended mass inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Sunday, to mark the end of a nine-day mourning ...

Of the small handful of papal contenders, an even smaller subset tends flocks in countries at war. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, ...

US President Donald Trump posted an AI image of himself as the pope, prompting accusations of poor taste in the Roman ...

Cardinal Justin Francis Rigali, the former archbishop of Philadelphia, is outside the age cutoff for the conclave to select ...

Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini is taking to his first conclave the same spirit that guided his decades-long front-line ministry ...

More cardinals from more countries than ever will gather in the Sistine Chapel starting Wednesday to choose a new pope at a ...

As cardinals prepare for the largest papal conclave in history, battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the church ...

For the second Sunday in a row, the balcony from where the pope prays the traditional Angelus remained empty. An unusual ...

The chimney on the Sistine Chapel is up, and voting to elect the next pope will begin on Wednesday afternoon, May 7. Here is ...

Shortly after it was announced that Pope Francis had died, online gambling websites posted the betting favorites to replace ...

While Pope Francis accomplished a lot in his 12-year papacy, he left much unfinished business and many challenges for his ...