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

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

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 ...

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

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

Nuns don’t have a vote in the election of a pope. But nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female Catholic orders gathered in ...

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

At Masses across Rome and socioeconomic lines, Catholics prayed the next pope focuses on poverty and peace days before the ...

All 133 cardinals have arrived for the conclave to elect a new pope after the passing of Pope Francis. Discover the latest ...

Whoever follows Francis must take up the legacy of Vatican II and of Pope Francis and engage the world without fear because ...

I become agitated when they say it’s time for an American, it’s time for an African, it’s time for a South Islander. I think ...