The voting is highly choreographed and time-consuming to avoid any possibility of fraud or doubt about the results.

Middleburg's Kielce Gussie was raised Catholic, attended Catholic schools and worked for the Vatican in Rome and gave a reading at the pope's funeral.

Pope Francis is credited with addressing the issue more strongly than his predecessors did, but clerical abuse remains a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trump’s AI-generated pope image sparks backlash from New York Catholic leaders, with outrage growing ahead of the papal conclave.

"And so it is what is, I guess, but it's very unfortunate," said Milwaukee Archbishop Jeffrey S. Grob. "It's a very serious ...

While Pope Francis accomplished a lot in his 12-year papacy, he left much unfinished business and many challenges for his ...