Robert Harris praises the secret process of electing Pope Francis's success, saying political parties could learn from it.

The 2025 conclave is less predictable than ever after Francis shook up the Catholic Church during his years as pope. More ...

Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline of France cooed at babies on Sunday at a church in the Monti neighborhood of Rome. Cardinal Peter ...

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

Trump and the White House shared the image on their online accounts Friday — just after the 78-year-old president joked that the Vatican should contemplate making him the Holy Father when ...

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

Since the death of Pope Francis on April 21, interest has surged in the Oscar-winning film "Conclave" and its source novel, which dramatizes the intrigue behind the election of a new pope. "Sunday ...

Right now, everything is secret,’ Madagascar Cardinal Désiré Tsarahazana said. ‘It’s the moment for prayers right now.’ ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A conclave is the centuries-old election of a pope that derives its name from the Italian “con clave” ...

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

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

It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that ended the longest papal election in the ...