An expected 133 cardinal electors will enter the Sistine Chapel May 7 to elect the new Roman pontiff, the successor to Pope ...

Pope Francis’ choice of cardinals from nontraditional ... Countries represented by a cardinal elector for the first time include Haiti, Mongolia, Myanmar (Burma), Malaysia, Tonga, Cape Verde ...

The funeral of the late Pope Francis will take place in St. Peter's Square on Saturday morning with his body lying in state ...

Several artists — from Andrea Bocelli to Bono, Katy Perry, J Balvin and Sting — met His Holiness since his papacy began. Balvin met Pope Francis at a summit organized by the Vitae Global Foundation in ...

The names of a few U.S. bishops have surfaced as possible contenders for Pope including Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, ...

Pope Francis during his 12-year pontificate elevated ... had never before had a cardinal in the Church’s history, such as Haiti, Papua New Guinea, East Timor, Singapore, and South Sudan.

Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín, who welcomed the decision to fly flags at half-mast over public buildings, said there should be ...

“Pope Francis truly shared the anxieties ... You’ve got the Cardinals from Tonga, Haiti, Central Africa, Mongolia. I think there’s a lot of unpredictability.” ...

Pope Francis created 163 cardinals from a total of 75 countries. Francis appointed the first cardinals from Bangladesh, Brunei, Central African Republic, Cape Verde, El Salvador, Haiti ...

The conclave to select a new pope will be sharply different from the body that chose Francis in 2013. Experts say that could ...

NEW YORK - When Pope Francis visited the United States in 2015, cheering crowds of Catholics and non-Catholics turned out in ...