Nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female Catholic orders met in Rome on Monday to chart a course forward, a few miles from ...

The oath-taking is being held in the Pauline Chapel at the Vatican for all those assigned to the upcoming conclave. They ...

Cardinals from all over the world are poised to elect a successor to Pope Francis at the conclave that begins Wednesday. But ...

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

As cardinals gather to elect Pope Francis’ successor, they are facing debates over whether the church most needs change or constancy.

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

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

Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Bishop Robert Barron have been tapped to serve on a new presidential commission on religious ...

While Francis stacked the ranks with his cardinals, it is not necessarily the case that all of them will want to see the ...

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

Strickland, a former bishop, said he worried a pope similar to Francis would deepen the rift between the U.S. and the Vatican ...

The likely top candidate for the conservative wing of the College of Cardinals is Esztergom–Budapest Cardinal Peter Erdo, ...