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

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

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

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.

The announcement “Habemus Papam” — “We have a pope” — from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica is followed first by the ...

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

ASAP As church leaders gather for a conclave at the Vatican this week to pick a new pontiff following the death of Pope ...

"He's really like Pope Francis in terms of his love for the poor, his approachability and so on," one of his students says.

Catholic cardinals have begun living in seclusion at the Vatican to prepare for a conclave that will elect a new Pope in the ...

With the conclave to select a new Pope beginning on May 7, many are wondering in what direction a new pope will take the ...

Two of the 10 U.S. cardinals participating in the conclave to elect a new pope are from the tristate area: Cardinal Timothy ...

Over the course of 12 general congregations before the conclave, the cardinals discussed key challenges facing the Church.