The secret ballot for a successor hasn’t begun. But among church leaders, talk about who will next lead the 2,000-year-old ...

The post also showed how much more secular Americans have become since John F. Kennedy, the nation’s first Catholic president ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - All of the 133 cardinals expected to take part in the secret conclave to elect a new pope have ...

An AI-generated image of President Donald Trump dressed as the pope is drawing criticism from some Catholics after it was ...

ROME (AP) — Rome is bustling with jasmine blooming and tourists swarming. But behind closed doors, these are the days of ...

Beyond simply picking who the next pope will be, players and gamblers also can guess how many tries it will take the ...

Rome welcomed all the cardinal electors entitled to participate in the upcoming conclave. Among them, a drawing took place, ...

They don’t have a vote in the pope’s election, but nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female Catholic orders met in Rome on ...

The rules and rituals for the election of a new pope say that immediately after his election, he goes into the sacristy of ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa is a Vatican outsider, but his experience in a region sacred to three major religions may ...

All of the 133 cardinals expected to take part in the secret conclave to elect a new pope have arrived in Rome, the Vatican ...

Cardinals who will take part in the conclave to elect a new pope have all now arrived in Rome. Cardinals who will take part ...