With no official campaigning or list of candidates and the election process shrouded in secrecy, speculation about who will ...

The cardinals held their last day of pre-conclave meetings Tuesday morning, during which Francis' fisherman's ring and his official seal were destroyed in one of the final formal rites of the ...

Over 130 voting cardinals must decide whether to continue in the direction of Francis or elect a pope likely to choose a more ...

After Pope Francis passed away last month, the race to succeed him has opened, with few names being cited as possible ...

The Catholic evangelist recalled that Pope Francis also received Vice President JD Vance that day “with kindness and ...

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

For most of the Catholic Church's first millennium, popes used their given names. The first exception was the 6th century ...

With the conclave to select a new Pope beginning on May 7, a lot of people are wondering in what direction a new pope will ...

What the world’s Indigenous Catholics don’t want to lose with the death of the first pontiff from the Southern Hemisphere: ...