Catholic cardinals will enter into conclave this week to choose a new pope, with the Church's 1.4 billion members holding ...

Shrouded in secrecy — that’s perhaps the most fitting description of the conclave that elects the next leader of the global ...

Four frontrunners have emerged as the most likely contenders known as papabile to succeed Pope Francis but at least a dozen ...

Some 133 Catholic cardinals will enter a conclave on Wednesday to elect a successor to Pope Francis, who died April 21 at 88.

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

Inverted crosses visible as Pope Francis lay in state symbolise Saint Peter, the first pontiff, and are not a reference to ...

The Catholic church faces a fundamental question as it prepares to elect a new pope. That is, whether to go back to a monarchical papacy with its pomp and pageantry, or to build on the momentum begun ...

Will cardinals continue Pope Francis' progressive ways or will they turn back the clock in favor of traditionalists?

ROME -- They don’t have a vote in the pope’s election, but nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female Catholic orders met in Rome on Monday to chart a course forward, a few miles from where cardinals ...

Northeastern Catholic District School Board Trustee Chair Glenn Sheculski and Colleen Landers (Trustee) have been acclaimed ...

Hollywood and the media love intrigue. And the interregnum in the Catholic Church provides much fodder for an institution ...

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