While Pope Francis accomplished a lot in his 12-year papacy, he left much unfinished business and many challenges for his ...

Some 133 cardinals enter the Sistine Chapel and are locked inside, tasked with choosing the next leader of the Catholic ...

President Donald Trump has dispatched Vice President JD Vance all over the world in the opening months of the administration.

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

President Donald Trump shared a doctored image of himself as pope, a role he cannot hold, drawing condemnation.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that his conversation with US President Donald Trump at the Vatican last ...

Vatican firefighters have installed the iconic chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, a key step ahead of the May 7 conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor. Black smoke = no pope yet; white smoke = a new ...

Turns out, nothing is sacred in the world of MAGA — as long as it’s Trump doing the desecrating. Vance was asked on Twitter ...

Pope Francis met with President Donald Trump, left, on the occasion of their private audience, at the Vatican, on May 24, 2017. The U.S. president is now under fire for sharing an AI photo on social ...

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

Rome is bustling with jasmine blooming and tourists swarming. But behind closed doors, these are the days of dinner parties, coffee klatches and private meetings as cardinals in town to elect a ...

President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself as the pope on Truth Social as cardinals get ready to vote for ...