As cardinals prepare for the largest papal conclave in history, battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the church ...

Will the adage 'fat pope, thin pope' bear out as cardinals pick a successor to Pope Francis in the May 7 conclave?

As a fireworks expert tests the Vatican's contemporary system for "holy smoke," Catholic cardinals mull their divergent ...

Workers and clerics assisting the dozens of Catholic cardinals set to gather Wednesday to begin voting on the next pope had ...

The oath, which explicitly forbids recording or disclosing anything from within the conclave, underscores the Church's ...

The Catholic Church's cardinals are meeting next week at the Vatican to elect the new pope in a centuries-old process called ...

As the voting to choose the next pope gets underway, serious questions loom about Europe’s future influence on the Church.

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

For the first time, the majority of cardinals to choose a pope are not from Europe, as Catholic demographics shift. But ...

We may be stuck with labels drawn from the political world. But the cardinals who enter the conclave tomorrow need to select ...