The election of a first North American pontiff came after the death of the first Latin American pope and signaled a ...

Sri Lankan Cardinal Albert Malcolm Ranjith, 77, a former Vatican official and nuncio, has led the Archdiocese of Colombo ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful ...

With no official campaigning or list of candidates and the election process shrouded in secrecy, speculation about who will ...

With the conclave to elect the new pope beginning in Vatican City on Wednesday, following the death of Francis I on 21 April, ...

His selection sparked a wave of congratulatory statements underscoring the significance of his American heritage and deep ...

A few cardinals are seen as front-runners to succeed Pope Francis, yet many of the clerics who will vote have not made up ...

Any cardinal electors who have made the trip to Vatican City but take ill or are too frail ... a church of Vietnamese refugees who fled their country by boat after the war in the 1980s and are ...

But here are 15 cardinals who are among the potential favourites to succeed Pope Francis -- so-called 'papabili' -- divided ...

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