Beyond simply picking who the next pope will be, players and gamblers also can guess how many tries it will take the ...

ROME (AP) — Rome is bustling with jasmine blooming and tourists swarming. But behind closed doors, these are the days of ...

The same goes for every person inside the Vatican during the conclave: from the two doctors on hand for any emergency, to the ...

Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini is taking to his first conclave the same spirit that guided his decades-long front-line ministry ...

The support staff for the cardinals who will elect the successor to Pope Francis took an oath of secrecy Monday ahead of the ...

Neomi De Anda, University of Dayton Most stories about Pope Francis mention that he made history as the first pontiff from ...

The image is raising eyebrows on social media, at the Vatican, from a group representing Catholic bishops in New York and from Italians.

The eyes of 1.4 billion Catholics are fixed on the Vatican City today as 132 cardinals started arriving in Rome as they ...

For Christians in the Middle East, this moment carries particular significance. These ancient communities, rooted in lands ...

In Rome, 133 cardinals have gathered to participate in the conclave starting on Wednesday. This information was provided by ...

A Chicago-born Cardinal is getting attention as a possible contender to be the new pope, but scholars say an American in the ...