ROME (AP) — Rome is bustling with jasmine blooming and tourists swarming. But behind closed doors, these are the days of ...

Fr. Kyle Doustou, a pastor in Old Town and soon to be Vicar General for the Diocese of Portland, sat down with Maine's Total ...

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

The support staff for the cardinals who will elect the successor to Pope Francis took an oath of secrecy Monday ahead of the ...

Beyond simply picking who the next pope will be, players and gamblers also can guess how many tries it will take the ...

There are currently 135 cardinals who are under age 80 and eligible to vote in the conclave, hailing from 71 different ...

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The image is raising eyebrows on social media, at the Vatican, from a group representing Catholic bishops in New York and from Italians.

The eyes of 1.4 billion Catholics are fixed on the Vatican City today as 132 cardinals started arriving in Rome as they ...

Cardinal Wilton Gregory will join the Vatican conclave, marking a historic first for African-American leadership in the Catholic Church.

The post also showed how much more secular Americans have become since John F. Kennedy, the nation’s first Catholic president ...

A Chicago-born Cardinal is getting attention as a possible contender to be the new pope, but scholars say an American in the ...