Father Wu Jianlin, vicar general of Shanghai, was chosen to be the city’s new auxiliary bishop, while Father Li Jianlin was ...

The late Pope Francis was fond of many foods, from Italian dishes to Argentinian specialties. We've rounded up several of the ...

Welcome to America magazine’s Conclave Podcast. Our editors are on the ground in Rome covering the conclave to elect the next ...

Irish-born Kevin Farrell was entrusted by Pope Francis with running the Holy See and carrying out the rites and rituals that ...

The Italian premier’s tireless triangulation reflects her almost preternatural ability to mediate, ingratiate, and negotiate.

Pope Francis saw priests' embrace of the trappings of power as a "cancer" corroding the Roman Catholic Church, said a ...

The qualities experts say we need in a new pope range from a unifier, to a reformer to being a disciple of Christ.

When Jenna Drummond and Clair Volkening saw Pope Francis step onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica to give his “urbi et ...

Pope Francis was known for his humble ways, which began when he joined the Jesuits in the 1950s. He signed away his ...

“I believe the Holy Spirit always intervenes in the choosing of the next pope,” the Rev. Halmar Adolis Calix, a priest from ...

Over-80 cardinals, who cannot vote in the conclave, are lashing out at the Francis papacy, calling for change of course.