In closed-door sessions called congregations, cardinals have given 70 speeches to their brethren. The conclave is likely to ...

A coalition of survivors of clergy sexual abuse demand the next pope adopt a universal zero-tolerance policy for abuse.

Known by his peers as a serious theologian, scholar and educator, Erdő, 72, is a leading contender among conservatives. He ...

President Donald Trump is going to need a new job when he is term-limited out of office on Jan. 20, 2029. The president the other day joked that his dream job would be pope. Speaking with reporters ...

The prayer book is the "Ordo Rituum Conclavis" ("Rites of the Conclave"), which was approved by St. John Paul II in 1998, but ...

Ahead of a gathering to elect a new pope, survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic priests have urged cardinals to choose ...

America’s editors on the ground in Rome discuss the latest conclave news and the work that remain for whoever is elected as Pope Francis’ successor.

Security for he conclave of cardinals to elect a successor to late Pope Francis will be like the security measures ad oped ...

Much of what you hear about who the next pope will be, spoken with enormous confidence by people in the know, is often ...

American Cardinal Kevin Farrell announced the death of Pope Francis from the chapel of Casa Santa Marta, where the late Holy ...

Matteo Bruni, director of the Holy See Press Office, had stated at an April 29 press briefing that two cardinal electors ...

Survivors of clerical abuse, experts in child protection and victim advocacy groups have collectively decried the presence of ...