While Pope Francis accomplished a lot in his 12-year papacy, he left much unfinished business and many challenges for his ...

One of Pope Francis's popemobiles is being transformed into a mobile health clinic for children in the Gaza Strip, fulfilling ...

As pre-conclave lobbying intensifies, top Vatican diplomat Pietro Parolin has become a point of convergence for cardinals ...

Cardinals enter the Vatican’s sealed conclave to elect the next pope in a centuries-old ritual shrouded in secrecy.

A conclave is the centuries-old election of a pope that derives its name from the Italian “con clave” (with a key) to ...

Death did not stop Pope Francis from making a surprise video appearance Sunday before more than 100,000 young people gathered ...

The cardinals will gather at St. Peter’s Basilica May 7 to celebrate a special Mass before gathering in the Sistine Chapel to ...

But papal betting has a long history. Roman banking houses were taking bets as far back as 1503. Alessandro Damasceni Peretti ...

The voting is highly choreographed and time-consuming to avoid any possibility of fraud or doubt about the results.

Timothy Cardinal Dolan, the archbishop of New York, is responding to an AI-generated image of President Trump dressed as the ...

President Trump shared an AI-generated photo of himself dressed as the pope just days after telling reporters that he'd "like ...