Some five hours after the opening Mass, the cardinals were to process into the Sistine Chapel, swear an oath to uphold the ...

The papal conclave will take place as usual in the hallowed space of the Sistine Chapel. What is the history of this famous ...

Perhaps a revealing question is whether the church will continue the radical novelty Francis brought as a pope from a ...

America' is covering its 10th papal conclave this week—and while the technology has changed, the content remains much the ...

Catholics and non-Catholics alike—throughout the world, however imperfectly, in the way the pope does. The world needs the ...

The choice of method, more than any difference in underlying doctrine, is where Pope Francis departed most radically from his ...

Cardinal Frank Leo, the 53-year-old archbishop of Toronto, told Gerard O’Connell that he does not think age or nationality is ...

Who are the frontrunners entering the conclave, and how the voting could quickly confirm papabile lists or pivot to an unexpected candidate ...

The two are passing through Rome on vacation and will continue to southern Italy. But they are practicing Catholics and were ...

The popular website, where people are randomly assigned a cardinal to pray for, has been revived for the 2025 conclave.

As the conclave draws near, I am becoming more nervous and apprehensive about what is ahead of us. But all I am asked to do ...

So each morning, I hop on a bus to make the short commute across the Tiber. As I walk from the bus stop to our temporary ...