With its meteoric rise chronicled in the New York Times under the comical headline “Two Religious Conservatives and a Marxist ...

The next leader of the Catholic Church is unlikely to be either a progressive reformer or a hard-line conservative.

Experts say there isn’t a single front-runner, but several names have been cited as indications of the direction the Roman ...

Sick of betting on college sports? Try the College of Cardinals. It’s a high-stakes game that has been played for centuries, ...

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

The centuries-old ritual, which is expected to last several days, comes just over a fortnight after the death of Pope Francis ...

Conclave watching turned out to be a perfect aperitivo activity. Caffè Centrale, on the main drag of the Veneto hometown of ...

Black smoke appeared from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on Wednesday, signalling that the 133 Catholic ...

Catholic cardinals are gathering at the Vatican to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21. Voting will ...

Cardinal William Goh is one of 133 cardinals from about 70 countries — and the first Singaporean — choosing the new pope in ...

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