Here’s a look at some of the leading papal contenders, with the proviso that favorites don’t typically end up getting the nod ...

Pietro Parolin could be the first Italian to serve in the papacy since 1978. The 70-year-old is known as a diplomat and a ...

COMMENTARY: Pope Francis’ successor should address four main aspects: persecution, social doctrine, missionary withering and ...

Francis’ papacy honored Latin American Catholics killed for their social justice work, a theologian explains – and Leo may ...

Cardinals enter a conclave on Wednesday to choose a new pope, leader of the world's 1.4 billion Roman Catholics. The secret ...

Pope Francis, who died April 23 and was buried Saturday ... who in 2009 appointed him the Vatican’s ambassador in Venezuela, where he defended the church against moves to weaken it by then-President ...

All 133 cardinals eligible to elect Pope Francis’s successor have arrived in Rome for the conclave and been locked in to take ...

Political figures around the world have issued messages of congratulation to Robert Prevost, who was elected Thursday as Pope ...

Sixteen days after the reign of Pope Francis ended with his death on Easter Monday, the Catholic Church is looking to the future. The papal conclave got underway Wednesday afternoon in Rome ...

Though associated closely with Francis’ pontificate, Parolin is much more demure in personality and diplomatic in his ...

Technically, any baptized Catholic man can become pope. That's not how it has historically worked, however, with the last pontiff who wasn't first a cardinal having served in the 1300s. And Pope ...