Becoming pope was a big deal for a cardinal and his family. Leading candidates known as papabili (pope-ables) began ...

At private dinners and at formal gatherings of cardinals, talk among church leaders of who will next lead the church has ...

All of the 133 cardinals expected to take part in the secret conclave to elect a new pope have arrived in Rome, the Vatican ...

Rome’s key tourist sites within the Vatican - the heart of the Catholic Church - are now absorbed by mourning and reelection ...

The two are passing through Rome on vacation and will continue to southern Italy. But they are practicing Catholics and were ...

As a fireworks expert tests the Vatican's contemporary system for "holy smoke," Catholic cardinals mull their divergent ...

Two cardinals, Michael Czerny and Chibly Langlois, sat down with ABC News to discuss the challenges facing the church that ...

A papal conclave is set to begin in Vatican City starting May 7, during which cardinals from around the world will elect the ...

Cleaners and cooks. Doctors and nurses. Even drivers and elevator operators. The support staff for the cardinals who will ...

The secret election appears wide open but here are some of the names, in alphabetical order, being talked about as possible ...

Cardinals wrapped up their pre-conclave meetings Tuesday, trying to identify a possible new pope who could follow Pope Francis and make the 2,000-year-old Catholic Church credible and relevant ...

At Sunday mass in a parish next to Rome’s most notorious public housing complex and in one of the city’s most historic ...