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 Álvaro Ramazzini is taking to his first conclave the same spirit that guided his decades-long front-line ministry ...

Cardinals continued to hold congregation meetings in the Vatican on Monday ahead of the conclave later this week to elect a ...

The support staff for the cardinals who will elect the successor to Pope Francis took an oath of secrecy Monday ahead of the ...

The cardinals of the Catholic Church have descended on the Vatican to begin the process in just days of electing a new pope.

Cardinals hailing from 71 different countries are eligible to elect a pope this week in the most geographically diverse ...

The Vatican has announced that military jammers will block electronic communication around the Sistine Chapel during the ...

The image is raising eyebrows on social media, at the Vatican, from a group representing Catholic bishops in New York and from Italians.

For Christians in the Middle East, this moment carries particular significance. These ancient communities, rooted in lands ...

The post also showed how much more secular Americans have become since John F. Kennedy, the nation’s first Catholic president ...