With its meteoric rise chronicled in the New York Times under the comical headline “Two Religious Conservatives and a Marxist ...

Black smoke appeared from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on Wednesday, signalling that the 133 Catholic ...

The late Pope Francis, who died on April 21 at the age of 88, will go down in history as a radical pontiff, and a champion of ...

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

Cardinal William Goh is one of 133 cardinals from about 70 countries — and the first Singaporean — choosing the new pope in ...

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

He always smiled at me; he seemed more like a brother than a pope,’ he recalls of Francis while working on his successor’s ...

Catholic cardinals are gathering at the Vatican to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21. Voting will ...

As more than a billion Catholics around the world await the election of a new pope, all eyes are on the Sistine Chapel, where ...

Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become the next pope.