On Wednesday, 133 members of the College of Cardinals will enter the Sistine Chapel for the third papal conclave in recent ...

Pope Francis, who died at 88 last month, was the first pontiff to be publicly inclusive of the LGBTQ Catholic community.

There is a famous quote attributed to then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1997, in comments to a Bavarian television station.

The papacy is not the presidency. The conclave is not a campaign. Understanding the future of the Catholic Church requires ...

Cardinals will gather at the Vatican to begin the process of electing a new pope on Wednesday. The Catholic Church will hold ...

Cardinals told RNS they now have a better sense of each other, despite having had little familiarity before the general ...

Scholars say the next pope will contend with climate change and rising authoritarianism as well as shifting demographics and ...

Ten of the cardinals that will vote on who will be the next pope hail from the US. Some of them are rumored to be in the ...

The Vatican is streaming live views of St. Peter's Square on its YouTube channel, NBC offers a "smoke cam" and CNN created a 3D visualization.

The voting process to elect a new Pope gets under way in Rome later and for the second conclave in a row there will be no ...