The conclave to elect the next pope will open on May 7, Vatican officials announced today. The cardinals meeting in plenary ...

Pope Francis taught the church that the magisterium finds its clarity not merely in propositions but in acts of mercy.

The Italian cardinal, who will vote in the conclave scheduled to begin May 7, said that true fidelity requires continuing the ...

The decision was made at the Fifth General Congregation, held on Monday morning in the Vatican's Synod Hall. The conclave ...

According to the Holy See, over 100 cardinal electors participated and renewed their oath of secrecy prescribed by the ...

A theme of early meetings is the tension between diversity and unity, which have become shorthand for cardinals to signal ...

The over-80 cardinals can be part of the preconclave meetings called general congregations. Those are daily meetings in which ...

Standing alongside the icon of Mary that Francis often visited in that basilica during his pontificate, the cardinal prayed ...