The United States is the home country for 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope. That’s more than any ...

The eyes of the world on Vatican City, as 133 Cardinals, 108 of them appointed by Pope Francis, are set to convene to elect ...

NCR analyzed the biographies, background, articles, speeches, homilies and media interviews of members of the College of ...

Other Catholic churches are joining in. St. Anne’s Catholic Church in Wausau gathered for a Mass of the Holy Spirit on ...

And they will determine whether the adage "fat pope, thin pope" holds true or whether the next leader of the Catholic Church ...

As the world prepares for the papal conclave, many are speculating about the potential for a historic moment: Could a ...

Not without some last-minute and apparently inconsequential drama, 133 cardinals will this afternoon file into the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican to elect the 267th Pope. Ten days after the death of ...

Papal conclave will begin on Wednesday, May 7. Among the top candidates is Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of the Philippines.

The process to elect the 267th pope begins Wednesday as cardinals gather in the Sistine Chapel. They will decide whether to ...

A tense papal election is expected to pit late Pope Francis’ number two, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, against an array of ...

Nuns don't have a vote in the election of a pope. But nearly 900 superiors of the world's female Catholic orders gathered in ...

Two of the 10 U.S. cardinals participating in the conclave to elect a new pope are from the tristate area: Cardinal Timothy ...