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

Middleburg's Kielce Gussie was raised Catholic, attended Catholic schools and worked for the Vatican in Rome and gave a reading at the pope's funeral.

As the Catholic Church mourns the death of Pope Francis and its all-male College of Cardinals prepares to elect his successor, an accidental email sent last month captured the contradictions at the ...

A cardinal (from the Latin "cardinalis" or principal) is a high dignitary of the Catholic Church chosen by the pope to assist ...

If the Catholic cardinals entering the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis are looking for a steady administrator ...

The Catholic church faces a fundamental question as it prepares to elect a new pope. That is, whether to go back to a monarchical papacy with its pomp and pageantry, or to build on the momentum begun ...

The papal conclave in the modern era has resulted in a number of progressive popes playing various roles in shaping political ...

In the heart of Rome, as the Catholic Church prepares for a historic transition, Hungarian Cardinal Péter Erdő leads Mass at his titular church ...

Just days before the papal conclave is set to take place, the official White House account on X posted the AI-generated image ...

Francis-era reforms that saw a diverse group of cardinals join the mix make his successor nearly impossible to call.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin was the architect of a deal with China that could scupper his chances to succeed Pope Francis ...

That includes Timothy Cardinal Dolan. CBS News New York's Mary Calvi caught up with New York's archbishop near the Vatican on ...