Cardinals electing a new pope have some fundamental questions to weigh, beyond whether to give the Catholic Church its first ...

The Catholic Church will begin the secretive process to elect a new pope on Wednesday. The cardinals eligible to vote will ...

Cardinals from across the world have begun gathering in the Vatican for the conclave, a secret set of votes in the Sistine ...

Nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female Catholic orders met in Rome on Monday to chart a course forward, a few miles from ...

Among the roughly 1.4 billion Catholics around the world, many are keenly anticipating the upcoming conclave at the Vatican ...

VATICAN CITY, Holy See (AFP) — All 133 Catholic cardinals who will vote for a new pope have arrived in Rome, the Vatican said ...

Hype has been building on social media around the Catholic Church's secretive, centuries-old tradition of conclaves to elect a new pope, animating users from the White House on ...

Cardinals have been meeting in the Vatican ahead of the conclave on May 7, where they will start to vote for a successor to Pope Francis. Preparations for the centuries-old tradition are underway, ...

Cardinals from around the world are currently at the Vatican to select their new pope. There is nervous expectation, ...