Among the roughly 1.4 billion Catholics around the world, many are keenly anticipating the upcoming conclave at the Vatican ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In the days leading up to the conclave, as cardinals have met in the general congregations to discuss ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls ...

Memories and perceptions of Pope Francis are many and varied. To give a few examples, some will remember him for opening ...

But papal betting has a long history. Roman banking houses were taking bets as far back as 1503. Alessandro Damasceni Peretti ...

He always smiled at me; he seemed more like a brother than a pope,’ he recalls of Francis while working on his successor’s ...

Gibson, of Fordham, said another factor that might throw off the traditional resistance to an American pope is the election ...

Is there really a U.S. delegation of cardinals, a team that would wear the same jersey? Do these players feel like teammates?

The same people who questioned Jorge Bergoglio when he became Pope today celebrate him as “the most important Argentine in ...

Nuns don't have a vote in the election of a pope. But nearly 900 superiors of the world's female Catholic orders gathered in ...