There are no official candidates for the papacy, but some cardinals are considered “papabile,” or possessing the ...

As members of the College of Cardinals prepare for the conclave, they face a profound choice: Build on the late pope’s ...

Cardinals are high-ranking officials of the Catholic Church whose main duties include advising, governing the Roman Curia, ...

The pope is the leader of the Catholic Church. Cardinals are appointed by the pope to the College of Cardinals, which advises ...

Of the 133 cardinals with the right to vote in this conclave, 108 were created by Pope Francis and therefore will be ...

Even though cardinals don’t campaign for the job, there are always front-runners going into a conclave to choose the next ...

Pope Francis's death comes after a series of health struggles. He held his final public appearance on Easter Sunday.

Pope Francis’ death fires the gun on what many see as a battle for the soul of the church – pitting those who want to continue his progressive reforms against a small but powerful group who want to ...

Pope Francis chose 149 of the current members of the college, most of whom will help choose his successor as cardinal ...

In contrast, Pope Francis recognised that Christians must go “beyond the walls” to embrace humanity as a whole. In his vision ...

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

The cardinal understands that the center of the Roman Catholic Church “is not in the United ... the United States and work inside the Vatican hierarchy, said Marco Politi, a veteran Vatican ...