Leading the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church. Location: Vatican City. There are no official candidates for the papacy, but ...

There are no official candidates for the papacy, but some cardinals are considered “papabile.” That means they possess the ...

Do you know how many papal conclaves there have been in your lifetime? Here’s how many conclaves there were in the last 100 ...

VATICAN CITY, — The last time cardinals gathered in the Sistine Chapel to elect a new pope was in March 2013, following the ...

The Catholic Church has a list of the College of Cardinals and biographies for ... The last lengthy conclave was in 1740 and ...

ROME (AP) — Two art restorers were putting the final touches on a months-long restoration of the tomb of Pope Urban VIII, who in 1626 consecrated St. Peter’s Basilica, when the convalescing ...

(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) The recent restoration of the funerary monument of Pope Paul III is displayed to journalists inside St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Friday, April 11, 2025. (AP ...

The president of the European Commission has indicated in an interview that she is ready to use the anti-coercion tool that would allow the EU to hit US services hard. The EU is ready to put ...

Thousands of Indigenous people marched through Brazil’s capital on Thursday, calling for stronger protection of their ancestral lands as a crucial step in tackling the global climate crisis. The ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, who is taking two months' rest as he recovers from double pneumonia, made an unannounced visit to St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican on Thursday (April 10 ...