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 ...

The black smoke confirmed the 133 cardinal electors sequestered inside had not reached the required two-thirds majority — at ...

Cardinals Peter Turkson, Philippe Barbarin, Péter Erdő, and Josip Bozanić — became members of the College of Cardinals in ...

Beginning Thursday, the cardinals will hold four votes each day: two in the morning and two in the afternoon. Each round of ...

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals, delivered this homily at the "Pro Eligendo Romano Pontifice" ...

Conference of the Society of Catholic Scientists will take place June 6–8 at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

Here is a list of the garments you may see the new pope wearing once he steps out onto the central balcony of St. Peter’s ...

The Room of Tears is just a few feet away from the Sistine Chapel, where the monumental decision of the papal election is ...

The Diocese of Camden, New Jersey, said it will drop its fight against the state’s efforts to empanel a grand jury to investigate clergy abuse allegations.

Inside the Sistine Chapel, each cardinal elector stood before his assigned seat, facing the Book of the Gospels, placed on a ...

Theologians from around the world will gather at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, this summer for the fifth ...

One of America’s best-known prelates shared what he believes to be the qualities of some of the cardinals being mentioned as “papabile.” ...