With no official campaigning or list of candidates and the election process shrouded in secrecy, speculation about who will ...

Before his death, Pope Francis asked that the vehicle be used to help injured and malnourished children in the war-torn ...

Of the 133 cardinals with the right to vote in this conclave, 108 were created by Pope Francis and therefore will be ...

VATICAN CITY — Sweden’s first cardinal, Anders Arborelius, is a convert to Catholicism in the overwhelmingly Protestant ...

New global data shows what makes for a flourishing life. It isn’t what we think. The Global Flourishing Study has surprising ...

There are no official candidates for the papacy, but some cardinals are considered “papabile,” or possessing the ...

As Berlin reconsiders its controversial secularism policy, Europe continues to debate the limits of religious expression in ...

Instead, the cardinal said Catholics must look at the pope and the church with "a look faith, not of political opinions" and ...

During his 12-year pontificate, Francis took important, even historical, ecumenical initiatives. In 2016, he became the first ...

Although Sweden was once predominantly Lutheran and is now largely secular, it is one of few European countries where the ...

Pope Francis, a voice for the poor who overcame fierce resistance to reshape the Catholic Church, died of a stroke and heart failure on Easter Monday at the age of 88, the Vatican announced.

Ahead of the conclave to select the next pope, names circulating include cardinals Bo of Myanmar, Tagle of the Philippines ...