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White smoke from the Sistine Chapel on Thursday signaled that the cardinals have selected the next leader of the Catholic ...
The question facing the conclave is whether the cardinals want to continue in the direction set by Pope Francis.
Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago will succeed Pope Francis as the leader of the Catholic Church. Prevost, the first ...
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Catholic cardinals gather and sequester themselves in the Vatican for the start of a conclave to elect a new pope.
The first thing the new pope will do is choose a name. In the history of the papacy, the most commonly used name has been ...
One conclave in the 13th century took nearly three years. Others took just one day. Pope Francis was elected on the second ...
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has become the first-ever American elected as the leader of the Catholic Church -- now known ...