As people watched the papal election process unfold, advocates for issues including female clergy expressed hopes and fears ...

UK cardinal’s final reflections before entering conclave to elect new pope - Cardinal Vincent Nichols is one of more than 130 ...

The 133 cardinals will remain within the Sistine Chapel and its adjoining buildings in total seclusion until they choose from among themselves the next pope.

Fr. Kyle Doustou, a pastor in Old Town and soon to be Vicar General for the Diocese of Portland, sat down with Maine's Total ...

Wearing bright red vestments, the cardinals processed down the central aisle of the basilica as the Sistine Chapel’s boys’ ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls ...

“We need to welcome and accompany,” said Sue DeFerrari, executive director of MorningStar Renewal Center, a Catholic ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals began the centuries-old ritual to ...

Cardinals have handed in their mobile phones and taken oaths of secrecy as they begin the secret conclave to decide the next ...

The 133 cardinal electors who will pick Pope Francis's successor have arrived in the Pauline Chapel of the Apostolic Palace.