The Catholic Church will begin the secretive process to elect a new pope on Wednesday. The cardinals eligible to vote will ...

Among the roughly 1.4 billion Catholics around the world, many are keenly anticipating the upcoming conclave at the Vatican ...

Cardinals electing a new pope have some fundamental questions to weigh, beyond whether to give the Catholic Church its first ...

Cleaners and cooks. Doctors and nurses. Even drivers and elevator operators. The support staff for the cardinals who will ...

"And so it is what is, I guess, but it's very unfortunate," said Milwaukee Archbishop Jeffrey S. Grob. "It's a very serious ...

As the voting to choose the next pope gets underway, serious questions loom about Europe’s future influence on the Church.

Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini is taking to his first conclave the same spirit that guided his decades-long front-line ministry ...

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

The eyes of 1.4 billion Catholics are fixed on the Vatican City today as 132 cardinals started arriving in Rome as they ...

ROME (AP) — Rome is bustling with jasmine blooming and tourists swarming. But behind closed doors, these are the days of ...

A Chicago-born Cardinal is getting attention as a possible contender to be the new pope, but scholars say an American in the ...

Cardinals who engaged with the media Monday spoke only in the most general terms about the sort of pope they’re looking for. ...