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

Pope Francis was not afraid of messiness. That seems to have been part and parcel of his pastoral freedom, charging into ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a native of Chicago, has spent the bulk of his career outside the United States. Supporters ...

The Vatican is finalizing preparations for the May 7 conclave, with firefighters on Friday installing a chimney on the roof ...

Cardinal Sean Patrick O’Malley, left, speaks to media, flanked by Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, Chicago archbishop, right, during ...

If Roman Catholic cardinals have not picked a new pope by day three of next week's conclave, then things are not going to ...

How long will the upcoming papal conclave take? Likely not that long, according to one Cardinal, who is personally hoping for ...

A significant shift in the landscape of the upcoming papal conclave occurred this week as Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, ...

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

Cardinals will begin the secret conclave, in The Vatican's Sistine Chapel, to elect the Catholic Church's 267th pope. DiNardo ...

On the seventh day of the Novendiales Masses for Pope Francis, Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti ended his homily with a prayer to ...

I wish I did not have to vote because I wish that Francis were still alive. But it is a fact that he has left us,” Cardinal ...