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 ...

For the first time in almost 70 years, the Church’s Australian hierarchy will not have a voice in the election of the next ...

For the first time in almost 70 years, the Church’s Australian hierarchy will not have a voice in the election of the next ...

Only cardinals under the age of 80, who are male and Catholic, are allowed to vote in the election of the new pontiff.

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 ...

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 ...

Pope Francis appointed women to key Vatican posts. Will his successor consider women as deacons and priests next?

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

On the eve of the conclave to elect the next pope, the world's smallest country, Vatican City, is engulfed in commotion as ...

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 ...

The two are passing through Rome on vacation and will continue to southern Italy. But they are practicing Catholics and were ...

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