The Vatican will be on lockdown starting Wednesday. The secrecy surrounding the conclave is to protect the cardinals from any ...

Pope Francis, who died at 88 last month, was the first pontiff to be publicly inclusive of the LGBTQ Catholic community.

The papacy is not the presidency. The conclave is not a campaign. Understanding the future of the Catholic Church requires ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo Jason Horowitz and Emma Bubola Reporting from Rome and Vatican City The death of Pope Francis last ...

Over 130 voting cardinals must decide whether to continue in the direction of Francis or elect a pope likely to choose a more traditional path.

There is a famous quote attributed to then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1997, in comments to a Bavarian television station.

Cardinals told RNS they now have a better sense of each other, despite having had little familiarity before the general ...

The conclave to select the next pope kicks off with the Latin phrase for “outside, all.” What happens next will be a mystery ...

The voting process to elect a new Pope gets under way in Rome later and for the second conclave in a row there will be no ...

Scholars say the next pope will contend with climate change and rising authoritarianism as well as shifting demographics and ...

As more than a billion Catholics around the world await the election of a new pope, all eyes will be on the Sistine Chapel, ...