COMMENTARY: From Rome to the Global South, the cardinals are preparing to elect a new pope — but history shows that the Holy ...

Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime celebrated the eighth Novendiales Mass for Pope Francis on Saturday. Francis urged ‘heart and ...

Vatican firefighters have installed the iconic chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, a key step ahead of the May 7 conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor. Black smoke = no pope yet; white smoke = a new ...

"To pray for the dead means, therefore, to love those who have died and that is what we are doing now for Pope Francis," the ...