Hundreds of cardinals attended mass inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Sunday, to mark the end of a nine-day mourning ...

Will cardinals continue Pope Francis' progressive ways or will they turn back the clock in favor of traditionalists?

The movie "Conclave" paints a mostly accurate picture of the Roman Catholic process of electing a new pope, save for an ...

Cardinal Justin Francis Rigali, the former archbishop of Philadelphia, is outside the age cutoff for the conclave to select ...

As cardinals prepare for the largest papal conclave in history, battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the church ...

US President Donald Trump posted an AI image of himself as the pope, prompting accusations of poor taste in the Roman ...

President Donald Trump’s latest social media stunt – an AI-generated image of himself dressed as the pope – sparked immediate ...

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

Vatican workers have installed the simple stove in the Sistine Chapel where ballots will be burned during the upcoming ...

The world won’t know the next leader of the world’s Catholics until he appears before a throng of supporters in St. Peter’s ...

From the longest and shortest elections to the origin of the required vow of secrecy, here are some facts about the centuries ...

The Catholic Church's cardinals are meeting next week at the Vatican to elect the new pope in a centuries-old process called ...