We may be stuck with labels drawn from the political world. But the cardinals who enter the conclave tomorrow need to select ...

As the voting to choose the next pope gets underway, serious questions loom about Europe’s future influence on the Church.

The Catholic Church reserves the priesthood for men, so only men will choose the leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.

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

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 ...

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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 ...

For Christians in the Middle East, this moment carries particular significance. These ancient communities, rooted in lands ...

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