As cardinals prepare for the largest papal conclave in history, battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the church ...

The Republican president, a non-Catholic, shared what appeared to be an AI-generated photo of himself as the pope, dressed in ...

Vatican workers installed the simple stove in the Sistine Chapel where ballots will be burned during the upcoming conclave to ...

Vatican workers have installed the simple stove in the Sistine Chapel where ballots will be burned during the upcoming ...

If Roman Catholic cardinals have not picked a new pope by day three of next week's conclave, then things are not going to ...

Will the adage 'fat pope, thin pope' bear out as cardinals pick a successor to Pope Francis in the May 7 conclave?

At private dinners and at formal gatherings of cardinals, talk among church leaders of who will next lead the church has ...

A new documentary from Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese will feature a conversation with the late Pope Francis about an ...

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

Pope Francis's death at the age of 88 means the Catholic Church must choose a new leader. Here's how cardinals elect the next ...

With 135 cardinals eligible to vote, the coming conclave is set to be the largest in the history of the Catholic Church and ...

A papal conclave, the election of a new pope, tends to begin 15-20 days after a papal vacancy. Black or white smoke indicates ...