Vatican cuts phone signal ahead of secret Sistine Chapel vote to elect new pope - In the pre-conclave Mass, senior cardinal ...

The tradition of locking up cardinals began some 800 years ago after they failed to elect a pope even after one year ...

A conclave is beginning to elect a new pope. Two cardinals with ties to the Fall River diocese have taken part in this solemn ...

The papal conclave, the solemn and secretive process in which cardinals convene to choose a successor to Pope Francis, gets underway in the Vatican today.

A Filipino or Congolese pope would signal that Catholicism’s demographic heart now beats in Manila and Kinshasa, rather than ...

A nearly yearlong excavation project in northern Switzerland is offering a glimpse into life in some of the Roman empire’s ...

For the first time, bite marks made by a large cat, possibly an African lion, have been identified on the bones of what is ...

Pope Francis appointed women to key Vatican posts. Will his successor consider women as deacons and priests next?

A newly excavated horse cemetery in Germany dates to Roman times.

Although molecular traces of ancient wines have been found staining pottery walls, this is the oldest wine in a liquid state ...

In a handful of hours, the conclave to elect the next pope after the death of Francis will begin. Here we explore the history ...

York was originally a small Celtic settlement before the arrival of the Roman Empire, but it soon became one of the most ...