For years, it was just a spooky school rumor — a body buried in the church basement — until someone opened the vault.

Over 130 voting cardinals must decide whether to continue in the direction of Francis or elect a pope likely to choose a more ...

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — The Catholic bishop of a New Jersey diocese said he would no longer oppose a state grand jury ...

For most of the Catholic Church's first millennium, popes used their given names. The first exception was the 6th century ...

With the conclave to select a new Pope beginning on May 7, a lot of people are wondering in what direction a new pope will ...

What the world’s Indigenous Catholics don’t want to lose with the death of the first pontiff from the Southern Hemisphere: ...

The next pope is unlikely to hail from the U.S., but here are three possible outliers who could be a factor when the College of Cardinals convenes on Wednesday.

The United States is the home country for 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope. That’s more than any ...

Though associated closely with Francis’ pontificate, Parolin is much more demure in personality and diplomatic in his ...

There is a famous quote attributed to then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1997, in comments to a Bavarian television station.

Papal candidates are known as “papabile” or translated from the Italian, “pope-able.” The vast majority of the papabile were ...