Groups representing survivors made last-minute appeals for the next pontiff to definitively resolve the crisis, which has ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa is a Vatican outsider, but his experience in a region sacred to three major religions may ...

Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become ...

As Catholic cardinals meet to choose a new pope, they will face a big question: Is it time, after three consecutive ...

The last Italian pope died in 1978. Now, among the papal candidates ahead of next week’s conclave, there are several Italian ...

It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that ended the longest papal election in the ...

The 133 cardinals from 70 countries will be locked inside the Sistine Chapel, where they will vote in secret and silence, a ...

Will cardinals continue Pope Francis' progressive ways or will they turn back the clock in favor of traditionalists?

With a Vatican official calling out “extra omnes” and the door to the Sistine Chapel shutting, the conclave to elect Pope ...

Now that the 133 cardinal electors are ensconced in the SIstine Chapel to elect a successor to Pope Francis, some potential ...

Cardinals attend a mass for the Election of the Roman Pontiff, prior to the start of the conclave, at St Peter's Basilica in ...

Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become the next pope.