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

Just hours remain before the Vatican begins the centuries-old process to elect a new pope. Today, cardinals who will elect ...

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

Cardinals told RNS they now have a better sense of each other, despite having had little familiarity before the general congregations — the last of which was Tuesday (May 6).

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

I’m going to go to that new pope and ask him to review my case and reinstate me,’’ said former city priest Frank Pavone — an ...

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 ...

The announcement “Habemus Papam” — “We have a pope” — from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica is followed first by the ...

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

ASAP As church leaders gather for a conclave at the Vatican this week to pick a new pontiff following the death of Pope ...