When Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was elected in 2013 as Pope Francis, he was a near total Vatican outsider. He had never been a ...

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 ...

When the cardinals meet for the conclave, they gather in the Sistine Chapel. All cardinal electors must swear an oath of ...

The date was chief on the agenda of cardinals holding informal meetings Monday to work out church business following the ...

The Italian cardinal at the heart of the Vatican’s “trial of the century” announced Tuesday he was withdrawing from ...

The conclave to elect the next pope will begin next Wednesday, the Vatican announced. About 135 cardinals under 80 can vote ...

Just days after the world said goodbye to Pope Francis, the Vatican announced that the conclave to elect a new pope will begin on May 7.

On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of mourners gathered at the Vatican for the funeral of Pope Francis, who died last week at ...

The cardinal, who was convicted of embezzlement in 2023 by a Vatican court of first instance, decided not to attend the ...

The Vatican has confirmed when the conclave to elect the next pope will commence. A total of 135 cardinals are eligible to ...

Whoever succeeds Pope Francis will inherit his momentous and controversial legacy of relations with Indigenous people ...