Some 135 cardinal electors, all under the age of 80 and from all over the world, are eligible to take part in the vote for ...

Pope Francis was a pope for our time. When so many practiced the politics of dehumanization, he stood for our common humanity ...

A conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis will begin on Wednesday, May 7, the Vatican announced Monday. The date of the ...

Roman Catholic cardinals will meet in a secret conclave to elect the new leader of the global Church starting from May 7, a ...

Pope Francis, who presided over the Roman Catholic Church and its estimated 1.4 billion followers for 12 years, died April 21 ...

Here is everything about the secretive Papal Conclave, including the date, electors, procedure, and possible candidates.

This announcement comes one week after the death of Pope Francis. Francis died April 21, just weeks after an extended hospital stay during which he battled bilateral pneumonia and other ...

The death of Pope Francis, after a very public diminishment, closes a signal chapter in Catholic history with absolutely no certainty about who or what comes next. Rather than reflexively corralling ...

The Vatican on Monday set the date for the Papal conclave amid some drama over whether a convicted cardinal will be able to ...

Exit tourists. Enter cardinals.The Vatican has closed the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather for the conclave to ...