VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals on Monday set May 7 as the start date for the conclave to elect Pope Francis’ ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals on Monday set May 7 as the start date for the conclave to elect Pope Francis’ ...

The Vatican has closed the Sistine Chapel to begin preparations for the conclave, during which Catholic cardinals from around ...

FrontPageAfrica has reliably gathered that Liberia’s religious community, acting on the request of President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, is attempting to persuade Speaker Jonathan Fonati Koffa to resign amid ...

Here's a closer look at the names generating the most buzz..Next pope, possible candidates, papal conclave, papabili ...

A popular saying in Vatican circles is that if you “enter a conclave as pope, you leave as a cardinal.”It implies the<a ...

If the sole predictor of who would become the next pope was where the Catholic Church is growing fastest, then it is almost ...

One in 5 of the world’s Catholics now live in Africa, and African cardinals will be key in determining Francis’s successor at ...

Recap our coverage from Pope Francis's funeral as world leaders gather in Rome. Francis died on Easter Monday after 13 years ...

The cardinals were invited to visit the pope's tomb and pray vespers, which was presided over by Cardinal Rolandas Makrickas, ...

The church is divided. The problem is to find the one who unites, not pretend that it isn’t divided,” one church historian ...