A frenzy of betting is underway as gamblers try to predict results of the upcoming conclave to pick Pope Francis’ successor. The cardinals may be stacked against them.

“We need to welcome and accompany,” said Sue DeFerrari, executive director of MorningStar Renewal Center, a Catholic ...

As more than a billion Catholics around the world await the election of a new pope, all eyes are on the Sistine Chapel, where 133 cardinals are beginning the secretive process known as a conclave.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls ...

He always smiled at me; he seemed more like a brother than a pope,’ he recalls of Francis while working on his successor’s ...

With no official campaigning or list of candidates and the election process shrouded in secrecy, speculation about who will ...

Memories and perceptions of Pope Francis are many and varied. To give a few examples, some will remember him for opening ...

Nuns don't have a vote in the election of a pope. But nearly 900 superiors of the world's female Catholic orders gathered in ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In the days leading up to the conclave, as cardinals have met in the general congregations to discuss ...