Travellers to Rome should expect closures, visitor restrictions and crowds at some of the city’s main attractions. View on ...

The soft-spoken, longtime Vatican diplomat could be the next pope - Pietro Parolin has been the Vatican's secretary of state ...

Social media and fake news buffet cardinals ahead of conclave Cardinals to elect new pope at conclave starting Wednesday ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, has emerged as an intriguing possibility ahead of ...

The Catholic Church will begin the secretive process of choosing a new pope on Wednesday. The cardinals eligible to vote will surrender their phones and be barred from outside contact during the ...

Taking the estimated number of Catholics in a country and dividing them by the number of cardinal-electors gives some idea of ...

Beyond simply picking who the next pope will be, players and gamblers also can guess how many tries it will take the ...

In its 800-year history, a conclave has never been this diverse. How will this changing face of Catholicism impact the result ...

President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself dressed as the pope. The post has since received criticism ...

Though Francis didn’t make major changes to the conclave, his outreach to what he called “peripheries’’ leaves an imprint ...

The image is raising eyebrows on social media, at the Vatican, from a group representing Catholic bishops in New York and from Italians.