Vatican firefighters have installed the iconic chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, a key step ahead of the May 7 conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor. Black smoke = no pope yet; white smoke = a new ...

Francis’ successor will be selected by cardinals at the conclave that began on May 7. Cardinals, known as the “princes of the ...

The red robes are worn by all 133 cardinals deliberating who will replace Pope Francis. The original reason cardinals started wearing red is disputed, but the hue is often said to represent the blood ...

A new leader of the Catholic church is expected to be chosen in the coming days following the death of Pope Francis on April ...

Although estranged from his own religious order for more than two decades, Pope Francis reconciled immediately after his ...

A bell is also rung, part of the ritual introduced when Pope Benedict XVI was elected, which confirms the smoke is white and ...

The announcement “Habemus Papam” — “We have a pope” — from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica is followed first by the ...

The largest and most geographically diverse papal conclave in history is set to commence May 7 in Rome, where cardinals will begin the secretive voting process to select the next man who will lead ...

The motto that Francis selected for his papacy, ‘looking at him with mercy, he chose him,’ was inspired by Caravaggio’s ...

In Bethlehem cooking and eating are always about relationships, and it is this world of human connections that Kattan, ...

To pray for the dead means, therefore, to love those who have died, and that is what we are doing now for Pope Francis,” Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime said.

We have lost a values-based global leader of integrity and courage. A man who spoke truth to power when many others, ...