Pope Francis’ emphasis on reaching out to the “peripheries" of the church and world will result in the most diverse ...

The conclave is a time-honored process conducted in secrecy behind the locked doors of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.

The Catholic Church is currently undergoing a nine-day period of mourning and prayer for the late Pope Francis, but everyone ...

Cardinals this week will start in-depth discussions on planning the conclave to choose Pope Francis’ successor ...

Pope Francis died at age 88 on April 21, setting off a series of centuries-old rituals to select a new leader of the Catholic ...

The cardinals eligible to vote for the new pope will gather in the coming weeks and enter seclusion to secretly vote for the new bishop of Rome.

One in 5 of the world’s Catholics now live in Africa, and African cardinals will be key in determining Francis’s successor at ...

With Pope Francis laid to rest, all eyes turn now to the conclave, the secretive meeting of cardinals set to convene within ...

Once the conclave begins, cardinals will vote twice in the morning and twice in the evening until they make a selection.

With the death of Pope Francis, attention now turns to the selection of his successor. The next pope will be chosen in what is called a “conclave,” a Latin word meaning “a room that can be locked up,” ...

VATICAN CITY – Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb of Pope Francis on Sunday, filing past the simple white tomb ...

Cardinal Christophe Pierre, papal nuncio to the United States, reflected on Pope Francis’s legacy and the evangelizing ...