The Catholic Church is an institution of remarkable longevity. The year marks the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of ...

For the first time, the majority of cardinals to choose a pope are not from Europe, as Catholic demographics shift. But ...

This previously devout cradle Catholic has lost her patience with a church that has sold its soul over a single issue. | ...

As a fireworks expert tests the Vatican's contemporary system for "holy smoke," Catholic cardinals mull their divergent ...

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

In Detroit, traditionalist Catholics were bracing for a crackdown. The promise of change in Rome offers them a sliver of hope ...

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 ...

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

The only certainty surrounding the election of the new pope is that he will be a man, and that's a tradition unlikely to ...

In its 800-year history, a conclave has never been this diverse. How will this changing face of Catholicism impact the result ...

The 133 cardinals of the Catholic Church will enter the conclave on Wednesday as they begins talk to select a new Pope.

Workers and clerics assisting the dozens of Catholic cardinals set to gather Wednesday to begin voting on the next pope had ...