The papacy is not the presidency. The conclave is not a campaign. Understanding the future of the Catholic Church requires ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo Jason Horowitz and Emma Bubola Reporting from Rome and Vatican City The death of Pope Francis last ...

The voting process to elect a new Pope gets under way in Rome later and for the second conclave in a row there will be no ...

The conclave to select the next pope kicks off with the Latin phrase for “outside, all.” What happens next will be a mystery ...

There is a famous quote attributed to then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1997, in comments to a Bavarian television station.

He eased rules on annulments and remarriage within the church and allowed priests to bless same-sex marriages. Some Catholics ...

Pope Francis, who died at 88 last month, was the first pontiff to be publicly inclusive of the LGBTQ Catholic community.

Cardinals told RNS they now have a better sense of each other, despite having had little familiarity before the general ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - The world is about to witness one of the most ancient and secretive of all meetings: the Papal ...

Scholars say the next pope will contend with climate change and rising authoritarianism as well as shifting demographics and ...

As more than a billion Catholics around the world await the election of a new pope, all eyes will be on the Sistine Chapel, ...