Cardinals hailing from 71 different countries are eligible to elect a pope this week in the most geographically diverse ...

If the Catholic cardinals entering the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis are looking for a steady administrator ...

As different as a papal election is from every other kind of election in the modern world, each conclave nonetheless has an ...

From the Sistine Chapel to St Peter’s Square, locations in the Vatican where the new pope’s election will play out in the ...

As the Catholic Church mourns the death of Pope Francis and its all-male College of Cardinals prepares to elect his successor, an accidental email sent last month captured the contradictions at the ...