A rare adjustment has expanded the number of voting cardinals to 135, amplifying African representation in the selection of the next pope.

Who is Pietro Parolin? The longtime Vatican diplomat who could be the next pope - Pietro Parolin has been the Vatican's ...

How the conclave will be kept secret - The Vatican has made sure that what happens in the Sistine Chapel stays in the Sistine ...

Pope Francis died on April 21, triggering a call for the 133 cardinal electors to gather in the Sistine Chapel to select the new leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. With representatives from ...

Papal candidates are known as “papabile” or translated from the Italian, “pope-able.” The vast majority of the papabile were ...

Starting Wednesday, the Roman Catholic College of Cardinals will gather inside the Sistine Chapel to begin choosing the next pope.

Only cardinals under the age of 80, who are male and Catholic, are allowed to vote in the election of the new pontiff.

The students at Pinecrest Academy, a Catholic school in Forsyth County, excitedly lined the hallways of the school Tuesday morning to be blessed by their new pope: 7-year-old David.

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An antipope is a person who makes a competing claim to the papacy, in opposition to the legitimately elected pope.

The days when European monarchs could veto papal candidates may be long gone, but campaigns to smear cardinals and ...

The United States is the home country of 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope of the Catholic Church.