President Donald Trump joked to the media that he'd "like to be pope" while adding that he does not have a preference for who ...

Each person who signs up for the pontifical campaign will be assigned to pray for one of the 135 cardinal electors ...

After his 2020 downfall, Becciu had said he would not participate in any future conclave. But in recent days he had asserted ...

Speculation surrounding a conclave to elect a pope is a time-honored tradition. But for the impending conclave following ...

From the majestic art to the white smoke, here's what to know about the Sistine Chapel, the sacred site of the conclave.

One of Pope Francis’ enduring legacies was that he greatly expanded the diversity of cardinals who will elect his successor, naming “princes of the church” from faraway countries that had never had ...

An Italian cardinal who was convicted of embezzlement and fraud said on April 29 he will not take part in the secret conclave ...

Becciu was sentenced to nearly five years in prison after a Vatican criminal court found him guilty of fraud and embezzlement ...

At 72 years of age, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, the progressive Archbishop of Newark, is one of the ten cardinals from the United States that will have a vote at the conclave to elect a new pope — and ...

The 135 cardinals eligible to elect the next pope will enter the Sistine Chapel to begin the conclave May 7, the Vatican announced.The cardinals will first celebrate the "Mass for the Election of the ...

ANALYSIS: While the de-Christianized Old Continent seems to be becoming irrelevant in view of the ongoing shift of Church leadership to the Southern Hemisphere, its cardinals will nonetheless maintain ...