Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become ...

Pilgrims from the Philadelphia region mourned during the funeral of Pope Francis and celebrated the election of Pope Leo XIV ...

Pope Francis's death at the age of 88 means the Catholic Church must choose a new leader. Here's how cardinals elect the next pontiff at the conclave.

Papal conclaves have featured calls of election fraud and bribery so gauche that riches were wheeled in on donkey carts.

By Jed Nelson There are moments in history that are so important, so joyful or tragic that we remember exactly where we were ...

Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

As with any new papacy, a quick look at their first appointments and audiences inside the system offers at least a small ...

The papal conclave is convening on Wednesday to begin the process of electing Pope Francis' successor. And for Americans who are visiting Rome this week, it's a chance to experience history.

Cardinal Blase Cupich visited the Chicago school that became a viral sensation for holding a mini conclave while the real ...

The papal conclave, the secretive election process to ... the church's highest-ranking clergy -- have gathered in Rome to mourn the loss of the former pontiff and begin the secret conclave.

We're still at the Rorschach test stage of the papacy, in which people can project almost anything they want to see amid the ...

Pope Leo XIV asked Sunday for prayers for China’s Catholics to be in communion with the Holy See, as he made his first public ...