Hype has been building on social media around the Catholic Church's secretive, centuries-old tradition of conclaves to elect a new pope, animating users from the White House on ...

Cardinals electing a new pope have some fundamental questions to weigh, beyond whether to give the Catholic Church its first ...

Cardinals from across the world have begun gathering in the Vatican for the conclave, a secret set of votes in the Sistine ...

Cleaners and cooks. Doctors and nurses. Even drivers and elevator operators. The support staff for the cardinals who will ...

"And so it is what is, I guess, but it's very unfortunate," said Milwaukee Archbishop Jeffrey S. Grob. "It's a very serious ...

As the voting to choose the next pope gets underway, serious questions loom about Europe’s future influence on the Church.

The Catholic Church reserves the priesthood for men, so only men will choose the leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.

Beyond simply picking who the next pope will be, players and gamblers also can guess how many tries it will take the ...

The College of Cardinals held its 11th general congregation at 5 p.m. Rome time on Monday in preparation for the May 7 conclave.

The image is raising eyebrows on social media, at the Vatican, from a group representing Catholic bishops in New York and from Italians.

ROME (AP) — Rome is bustling with jasmine blooming and tourists swarming. But behind closed doors, these are the days of ...

The eyes of 1.4 billion Catholics are fixed on the Vatican City today as 132 cardinals started arriving in Rome as they ...