For Cardinal Juan García Rodríguez, the pre-conclave gatherings are not about orchestrated strategies or names whispered in ...

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

Cardinal Robert Prevost joins the conclave Wednesday to pick Pope Francis' successor. His rise in the faith began at a South ...

The oath, which explicitly forbids recording or disclosing anything from within the conclave, underscores the Church's ...

Activists are fighting a church that wants to put the scandal behind it and a public that may be tiring of it.

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

Cardinals hailing from 71 different countries are eligible to elect a pope this week in the most geographically diverse ...

All Vatican personnel involved in supporting the upcoming papal conclave will take an oath of secrecy — under penalty of ...

Time is running out and there are still many cardinals registered to speak at the pre-conclave meetings called general ...

As the Vatican prepares for a conclave to choose a new pope, American Catholics share their hopes and concerns for the Church ...

ROME -- 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 Monday to chart a course forward, a few miles from where cardinals ...