Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline of France cooed at babies on Sunday at a church in the Monti neighborhood of Rome. Cardinal Peter ...

By Nkiruka Nnorom with agency reports A total of 133 cardinals electors taking part in the conclave, the highly secretive election to pick a successor to Pope Francis, who died last month after a ...

A plume of black smoke emerged from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, signalling that the first ballot of the ...

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

Archbishop of Yangon and Luis Antonio Tagle (Philippines), 67, Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Manila, are among the favourites for the revered post.

A former ambassador to Venezuela ... his maternal grandmother was part of a Chinese family that moved to the Philippines. Though he has pastoral, Vatican and management experience — he headed ...

the archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, to arrive. Several rows of chairs painted in gold near the front of the church were reserved for dignitaries, including the Hungarian ambassadors to the Holy ...