Cardinals electing a new pope have some fundamental questions to weigh, beyond whether to give the Catholic Church its first ...

VATICAN CITY, Holy See (AFP) — All 133 Catholic cardinals who will vote for a new pope have arrived in Rome, the Vatican said ...

Among the roughly 1.4 billion Catholics around the world, many are keenly anticipating the upcoming conclave at the Vatican ...

Cleaners and cooks. Doctors and nurses. Even drivers and elevator operators. The support staff for the cardinals who will ...

Hype has been building on social media around the Catholic Church's secretive, centuries-old tradition of conclaves to elect a new pope, animating users from the White House on ...

As 135 cardinals meet in Rome to decide the next pope, questions about the legacy of the last one will loom large over their ...

Nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female Catholic orders met in Rome on Monday to chart a course forward, a few miles from ...

Cardinals from across the world have begun gathering in the Vatican for the conclave, a secret set of votes in the Sistine ...