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

"I wanted so much to come here in these first days of the new ministry that the church has given me" to seek Mary's help "to ...

Cardinals gather to elect the next pope, and millions are placing bets on the outcome worldwide. Inside Italy's viral Fantapapa game and tradition of papal betting.

The United States is the home country of 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope of the Catholic Church.

(AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File) From left, Britain’s Charles Quarterman, Italy’s Francesco Gavazzi and Luxembourg’s ...

The Vatican, headquarters of the Catholic Church, is the smallest state in the world, with its own newspaper, national anthem ...

It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that ended the longest papal election in the Catholic Church’s history, forging for the first time the word “conclave.” ...

Catholic cardinals are gathering at the Vatican to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21. Voting will ...

A conclave to choose a new pope normally takes place 15 to 20 days after the death of a pontiff, meaning this conclave should ...

ROME (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance met with Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni in Rome on Friday for a second day of talks on tariffs and then attended Good Friday services at the Vatican amid ...

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves Wednesday behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to ...