As the Vatican prepares for a conclave to choose a new pope, American Catholics share their hopes and concerns for the Church ...

Catholics are African, increasing the chances of a Pope from that continent. While the Church is losing influence in Europe ...

All 133 Catholic cardinals who will vote for a new pope have arrived in Rome, the Vatican said on Monday, two days before ...

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

Cardinals from all over the world are gathering in Rome to elect a new pope. The conclave begins on Wednesday.

In a handful of hours, the conclave to elect the next pope after the death of Francis will begin. Here we explore the history ...

Nuns don’t have a vote in the election of a pope. But nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female religious orders gathered in ...

It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that put an end to the longest papal election in ...

The conclave to elect a new pope isn’t the only international event attracting visitors to Rome this week. The return of ...

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

The AI image of President Trump masquerading as the pope "mocks God, the Catholic Church and the Papacy," Bishop Paprocki said.

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.