What makes a country a country? The issue is defining what a country is, and some argue that the Vatican doesn’t fulfill that ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Voting to elect Pope Francis’ successor will begin on May 7 in Rome. Local ...

He predicted Italian Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa will be the next pope, and will choose the name Francis II.

There are no official candidates for the papacy, but some cardinals are considered “papabile,” or possessing the ...

Conclave” the film may have introduced moviegoers to the spectacular ritual and drama of a modern conclave, but the periodic ...

The voting is highly choreographed and time-consuming to avoid any possibility of fraud or doubt about the results.

Preparations for the conclave to find the new head of the Catholic Church accelerated on Friday with the installation of the ...

Preparations for the conclave to find a new pope accelerated Friday with the installation of the chimney out of the Sistine ...

Confusion surrounding the birthdate of Cardinal Philippe Ouédraogo, a conservative cardinal from Burkina Faso, may cost him his spot at the upcoming papal conclave. Only cardinals under the age of 80 ...

I wish I did not have to vote because I wish that Francis were still alive. But it is a fact that he has left us,” Cardinal ...

The French president held a series of meetings with cardinals and other Church officials while in the Italian capital last ...