Vatican firefighters have installed the iconic chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, a key step ahead of the May 7 conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor. Black smoke = no pope yet; white smoke = a new ...

As Italian and generally Western clergy lose influence within Vatican institutions, Italians hope that one of their three ...

Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini is taking to his first conclave the same spirit that guided his decades-long front-line ministry ...

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Sexual predators, crooked financiers, spies and a spattering of murderers: while the Vatican may appear an earthly garden ...

Major voices of the conclave. Sweden’s first bishop since the Protestant Reformation and the country’s first cardinal since the Christianization of Scania in the 10th century, Cardinal Anders ...

Father Wu Jianlin, vicar general of Shanghai, was chosen to be the city’s new auxiliary bishop, while Father Li Jianlin was ...

For more than 750 years, strict rules have guarded what cardinals can and cannot eat to prevent hidden messages stuffed ...

The last Italian pope died in 1978. Now, among the papal candidates ahead of next week’s conclave, there are several Italian ...

Major voices of the conclave. Born in the United States and a member of the Augustinian order, Cardinal Robert Prevost — currently head of the Vatican office responsible for appointing bishops — spent ...

This incredible discovery was unique and rare because the find went against everything known about a critical Roman ritual.

Archaeological find in Gloucester: 317 skeletons and Roman mosaics under old warehouse reveal 2,000 years of hidden British urban history.