It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that ended the longest papal election in the ...

Cardinal Justin Francis Rigali, the former archbishop of Philadelphia, is outside the age cutoff for the conclave to select ...

At least one U.S. bishop said President Donald Trump needs to apologize and even his closest prelate in the church, Cardinal ...

More cardinals from more countries than ever will gather in the Sistine Chapel starting Wednesday to choose a new pope at a ...

The universal church is on full display during the waiting-for-white-smoke period. Watchers who gather at St. Peter's Square ...

The gleaming colonnade of St. Peter's Square provides a majestic backdrop as four men wait for a free dinner on a terrace in ...

British Cardinal Vincent Nichols provides an insider's view of what's going on these days before the conclave to elect a ...

More than 65 years later, I still remember the experience of being an altar boy reciting the entirety of the Catholic Mass in ...

Nuns sexually assaulted by priests are one of the last Catholic taboos, but with reports of abuse rising, it is a scandal ...

Vatican firefighters have installed the iconic chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, a key step ahead of the May 7 conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor. Black smoke = no pope yet; white smoke = a new ...

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