The College of Cardinals celebrated the ninth and final Novendiales Mass for Pope Francis on Sunday, May 4, the third Sunday of Easter.

Pope Francis’s work on synodality could pave the way for a very different style of Church, with self-governing regional ...

The Vatican's Sistine Chapel has been prepared to host 133 Cardinal electors for the upcoming conclave to elect the 267th Pope.

The new pope will be the successor to Francis I, who died on April 21 at age 88 after a 12-year papacy. Here's everything you ...

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

Robert Harris praises the secret process of electing Pope Francis's success, saying political parties could learn from it.

In the pre-conclave process, cardinals – played by the likes of Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, and John Lithgow in the film – ...

Workers enter the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City on May 2 to install a stove and chimney to be used for the election of a new pope. The ballots will be burned inside the stove, the smoke signaling ...

VATICAN CITY — "Conclave" the film may have introduced moviegoers to the spectacular ritual and drama of a modern conclave, ...

Vice President JD Vance has been dispatched all over the world in the opening months of Trump's administration and often ...

The meeting of the College of Cardinals, where the next head of the Catholic Church will be selected, is scheduled to take place on May 7 ...

This conclave is significant not only for its size, but also for the opportunity it presents to shape the future of Catholicism. The outcome will have implications for the church's stance on a variety ...