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 ...

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

Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline of France cooed at babies on Sunday at a church in the Monti neighborhood of Rome. Cardinal Peter ...

At Sunday mass in a parish next to Rome’s most notorious public housing complex and in one of the city’s most historic ...

At private dinners and at formal gatherings of cardinals, talk among church leaders of who will next lead the church has ...

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

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

Two cardinals, Michael Czerny and Chibly Langlois, sat down with ABC News to discuss the challenges facing the church that ...

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 ...

They will gather in secret in the Sistine Chapel starting at 4:30 pm (1430 GMT) on Wednesday, and will keep voting until one ...

This year is already one of the busiest for tourists in Rome, but as the city mourns Pope Francis’ passing and prepares for a ...