The conclave that begins next Wednesday to elect a successor for Pope Francis is the first in 46 ½ years for which the ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich, who served as bishop of Spokane from 2010 to 2014, will be among the 135 cardinals to cast a vote in the conclave. Cupich was tapped by Francis to become Archbishop of Chicago ...

Cardinal Gerhard Müller has called on the next pope to stand up to the "gay lobby" as the race to choose the next leader of the Catholic church continues.

Pope Francis' tomb assures a pageantry of pilgrims to his memory, as the scandal-battered Catholic Church seeks high ground ...

When Jenna Drummond and Clair Volkening saw Pope Francis step onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica to give his “urbi et ...

“I believe the Holy Spirit always intervenes in the choosing of the next pope,” the Rev. Halmar Adolis Calix, a priest from ...

Since the death of Pope Francis, lists of his possible successors have proliferated on social media and in newspapers. Should ...

Over-80 cardinals, who cannot vote in the conclave, are lashing out at the Francis papacy, calling for change of course.

The Vatican’s College of Cardinals will soon gather in Rome to elect a new head of the Catholic Church following the death of Pope Francis. As the church prepares for the papal conclave, the world is ...

When the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel spouts white smoke, it means that the Catholic Church officially has a new pope.

With less than a week to go before the conclave to elect a new pope, Rome's best-known clerical tailors have not received ...

Last year's Oscar-nominated movie Conclave has become a big streaming hit in the wake of the death of the Pope. But how ...