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

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

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

As cardinals prepare to meet in a conclave at the Vatican to elect a new pope, Catholic bishops in Cameroon and around Africa ...

Thanks largely to the United States' unique civil justice system and robust free press, bishops here have been forced to ...

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 ...

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

If you enjoyed the 2019 film “The Two Popes” and urged others to watch it, you unwittingly supported a dangerous fictional misrepresentation of Church ...

While Trump isn’t the only US president to seemingly mock the faith, as former president Joe Biden sparked outrage among the ...

Aside from doubts about the true age of Philippe Ouedraogo, a cardinal from Burkina Faso whom some claim is 80, meaning he’s too old to vote, and concerns about the presence of the Peruvian cardinal ...