The death of Pope Francis means a papal conclave will be held to select a successor, but besides who wins, the public will most likely not know how many votes the successor received, nor would ...

He was speaking while flanked by a solemn group of church leaders, gathered in the ancient Christian village of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank, to show solidarity with the tiny community as it faces ...

The papal conclave to elect the next leader of the Catholic Church began Wednesday with a procession into the Sistine Chapel and 133 cardinal electors swearing an oath of secrecy.

The Archbishop of Dili, Cardinal Virgílio do Carmo da Silva, is one of the Catholic church’s most powerful figures in ...

VATICAN CITY -- In his very first sermon as pontiff, Pope Leo XIV told the cardinals who elected him that anyone who ...

The monks of Venice’s San Giorgio Maggiore have hosted Cosimo de Medici in exile and a papal conclave, but they won’t be ...