At private dinners and at formal gatherings of cardinals, talk among church leaders of who will next lead the church has ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb of Pope Francis on Sunday, filing past the simple white ...

The voting is highly choreographed and time-consuming to avoid any possibility of fraud or doubt about the results.

Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle is sometimes called the "Asian Francis" because of his infectious smile, easy laugh, and ...

Francis is not the only pope to rest there. Seven others are buried on the grounds, most notably St. Pius V, who established ...

At Masses in Rome’s housing projects and in the heart of its tourist district, the faithful prayed Sunday for the upcoming ...

I never knew how much I wanted to go to Rome until I got there.

The world won’t know the next leader of the world’s Catholics until he appears before a throng of supporters in St. Peter’s ...

All Roman Catholics are Christians, but not the other way around, differing in beliefs about the sacraments, the pope, the ...

A possible contender for the papacy, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi has worked with the needy and the disenfranchised, even as he ...

Members of the College of Cardinals have gathered in Rome in anticipation of the subsequent election of Pope Francis’ successor. There are currently 252 cardinals, 133 of whom are eligible and ...