Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to elect the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls ...

The wait for a new pope goes on after black smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel following the first secret vote as the ...

A Filipino or Congolese pope would signal that Catholicism’s demographic heart now beats in Manila and Kinshasa, rather than ...

The Catholic Church is an institution of remarkable longevity. The year marks the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of ...