Former Sen. Joe Donnelly, who served as U.S. ambassador to the Holy See under President Joe Biden, joins TODAY to discuss the ...

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

Throughout the 20th century, only two conclaves lasted up to five days − Pope Pius X's election in 1903 and Pope Pius XI's ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday began centuries-old ...

Cardinals have handed in their mobile phones and taken oaths of secrecy as they begin the secret conclave to decide the next ...

Michigan native Joseph Tobin will help select Pope Francis' successor during the papal conclave that began May 7.

“We need to welcome and accompany,” said Sue DeFerrari, executive director of MorningStar Renewal Center, a Catholic spiritual center in Miami. “That’s my hope, for the future, that we would not be a ...

Wednesday morning, the College of Cardinals gathered at the Vatican to begin the process of selecting a new pontiff.

The motto that Francis selected for his papacy, ‘looking at him with mercy, he chose him,’ was inspired by Caravaggio’s ...