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

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

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

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

The project will highlight scripted short films from international communities along with snippets of a conversation between ...

Cardinal Gerhard Müller has called on the next pope to stand up to the "gay lobby" as the race to choose the next leader of ...

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 ...

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

If the next pope is from sub-Saharan Africa, he would be the first in Catholic Church history. Catholic Africans think it is ...

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

ANALYSIS: As the Church prepares to choose a new pope, the role of America’s cardinal-electors offers a glimpse into the ...

The prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and a close personal friend of the late Pope Francis celebrated ...