Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline has been elected president of the French bishops’ conference, succeeding Archbishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort as the Catholic Church in France continues responding to ...

Four favourites have emerged to succeed Pope Francis but the uncertainty around whether any candidate has sufficient support has meant that it is one of the most wide open conclaves in history.

The conclave starting this Wednesday promises to bring unpredictable and unfamiliar winds of change. During his time as pontiff, Pope Francis upended the Church’s traditional power structures by ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Cardinals enter a conclave on Wednesday to choose a new pope, leader of the world's 1.4 billion Roman Catholics. The secret election appears wide open but here are some of the ...

Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline of Marseille, France, said his visit to the Holy Land was intended as a gesture of solidarity with the local Christian community and a demonstration of support for "all the ...

A contender to be pope? With no official campaigning or list of candidates, there is much speculation about who will succeed Pope Francis. Here is one cardinal cited by some as a potential frontrunner ...

In France, in various Catholic circles, he is called John XXIV for his strong resemblance to Pope Roncalli and his open-minded ideas on social issues. Perhaps it is a coincidence that Bergoglio, a few ...

Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican's powerful office of bishops, has been elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the ...

VATICAN CITY - Predict who the next pope will be at your peril. An old Italian saying warns against putting faith, or money, in any presumed front runner ahead of the conclave, the closed-door ...

Cardinal Aveline is said to have been the successor that Pope Francis himself wanted and is rapidly becoming the candidate of those who supported his agenda. While he was not previously described as ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost hails from Chicago which is the biggest Archdiocese in North America and famously turns the river green on St Patrick’s day. He is believed to be in serious discussion now as ...