Cardinals failed again Thursday morning to find a successor to Pope Francis, sending black smoke billowing up through the ...

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

Before he died, Pope Francis gave away the last of his personal savings to a cause he deeply cared about: bringing hope to those who are incarcerated.

The conclave to elect a new pope continues as cardinals from around the world vote in secret. With 133 cardinals ...

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

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

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

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

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

“We need to welcome and accompany,” said Sue DeFerrari, executive director of MorningStar Renewal Center, a Catholic ...

The South Korean cardinal is one of the most likely candidates to succeed Pope Francis as head of the Vatican.

Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become the next pope.