Promoting a church that is welcoming, listens to everyone and unifies, some members of the College of Cardinals told ...

Pope Francis, the Roman Catholic Church's leader for the last 12 years ... The cardinals participate in a secret vote ...

and as the Catholic Church mourns his death, it is also looking to the future. On Monday — two days after the pope's funeral — the Vatican confirmed that a papal conclave will begin on May 7 ...

A Catholic scholar explains every step of the conclave process that will determine the successor to the late Pope Francis.

Cardinals meeting ahead of the conclave also discussed Vatican finances and Cardinal Becciu’s withdrawal from the election of ...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suggested that the more than 230 Catholic Cardinals in the conclave “keep an open mind” about considering President Donald Trump for the papacy.

Survivors of clerical abuse, experts in child protection and victim advocacy groups have collectively decried the presence of ...

Italian Cardinal Camillo Ruini, who chaired the international commission investigating the authenticity of Medjugorje, has ...

The last Italian pope died in 1978. Now, among the papal candidates ahead of next week’s conclave, there are several Italian contenders.

Following the death or abdication of a pope, the Catholic Church's College of Cardinals meets at the Vatican to choose a new leader at a papal conclave. However, a papal conclave does not ...

Trump joked he would like to be next pope days after Francis dies. Sen. Lindsey Graham thought it was funny and exciting. But ...