Smoke signals have occurred at mid-morning, noon, mid-afternoon and evening. The longest conclave took three years.

Will the adage 'fat pope, thin pope' bear out as cardinals pick a successor to Pope Francis in the May 7 conclave?

President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine are among the world leaders who plan to attend the funeral. The ...

Irish-born Kevin Farrell was entrusted by Pope Francis with running the Holy See and carrying out the rites and rituals that ...

KAMPALA, Uganda — If the next pope is from sub-Saharan Africa, he would be the first in Catholic Church history. Catholic ...

All 12 Republicans on the Senate committee voted in favor of Brian Burch, while all 10 of the committee’s Democrat members ...

Leading the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church.Location: Vatican City.There are no official candidates for the papacy, but ...

The world won’t know the next leader of the world’s Catholics until he appears before a throng of supporters in St. Peter’s ...

Pope Francis chose 149 of the current members of the college, most of whom will help choose his successor as cardinal ...

As Catholic cardinals meet to choose a new pope, they will face a big question: Is it time, after three consecutive ...

The project will highlight scripted short films from international communities along with snippets of a conversation between ...

Ahead of the 2013 conclave to replace Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan was tipped to restore the papal hat ...