The Catholic Church's cardinals are meeting next week at the Vatican to elect the new pope in a centuries-old process called ...

Will the adage 'fat pope, thin pope' bear out as cardinals pick a successor to Pope Francis in the May 7 conclave?

Ahead of the 2013 conclave to replace Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan was tipped to restore the papal hat ...

Smoke signals have occurred at mid-morning, noon, mid-afternoon and evening. The longest conclave took three years.

Over his 20 years on the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts has demonstrated an ability to slowly build the ...

“For us, it does not matter whether he is African, white, or Black. What matters is having a good, holy pope who can unite ...

The world won’t know the next leader of the world’s Catholics until he appears before a throng of supporters in St. Peter’s ...

Build on the good of what Francis achieved while focusing on doctrinal clarity.

New Orleans Archbishop Gregory Aymond is the leader of approximately half a million Catholics in the second-oldest diocese in ...

The case, "one of the biggest on church and state in a generation," could now hinge on whether five conservative justices ...

Hollywood and the media love intrigue. And the interregnum in the Catholic Church provides much fodder for an institution that has long resisted secularism.

The conclave will be a "fight for the soul of the Catholic Church" between those who saw promise in the modernising changes ...