Reforming the Vatican’s policy on China should be a priority of the next papacy. The current approach is defined by the ...

Fans of the Oscar-nominated movie “Conclave,” which is about a papal election, might think they have a head start on what’s ...

One of the more surprising - and often missed - aspects of Francis' 12-year papacy was his emergence as an incisive economic ...

After every round of voting during a conclave, the ballots are burned with chemicals in a process that enables the cardinals ...

The proportion of cardinal electors from Africa and the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America, and countries in ...

Now that Pope Francis has been laid to rest, there's a renewed fascination with the centuries-old traditions of the Vatican.

The leader of Interfaith Philadelphia, Abby Stamelman Hocky, looks back on the late pope’s 2015 visit to the city as a moment ...