Survivors of clerical abuse, experts in child protection and victim advocacy groups have collectively decried the presence of ...

As the world’s most exclusive club prepares to elect the new pope, they face an immediate test of just how seriously they ...

This was just on the day they announced when the Conclave was taking place: Journalists will be scouring the city of Rome – ...

As often as Tagle is touted for the papacy by media outlets, external commentators and ardent fans, he’ll be dismissed by an ...

He’s known as “John XXIV,” a reference not only to the reform-minded spirit of “Good Pope John,” but also to the fact that ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa has earned trust among Israelis, Palestinians, Jordanians and Egyptians alike, developing a ...

His absence from the conclave marks the latest blow to the reputation and legacy of Cardinal Aneglo Becciu, who once seemed ...

After attending Pope Francis’s funeral Saturday and as they begin pre-conclave meetings to discuss the state of the world and ...

As cardinals meet in Rome ahead of a conclave to elect the next pope, a Peruvian cardinal accused of sexual abuse and whose ...

The 69-year-old Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna arguably is as close to a potential “Pope Francis II” as one will find among ...

Among the social groups that have lamented Pope Francis’s death in Brazil, the Indigenous peoples seem to be especially ...

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo found a way for the Africans to have their cassava and eat it too – opposing the pope, at least ...