Once-powerful Vatican official Cardinal Angelo Becciu has formally withdrawn from participating in the conclave to elect a ...

A religious reporter explains why the Italian cardinal at the heart of the Vatican’s “trial of the century” announced on ...

A cardinal convicted of financial crimes by the Vatican who was demanding he should be able to participate in the upcoming ...

Becciu was once an influential Vatican chief of staff who was a leading papal contender himself. But he fell from grace in 2020 due to financial misconduct allegations ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A conclave is the centuries-old election of a pope that derives its name from the Italian “con clave” ...

The head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, has died. We take a look at his legacy and how the church will choose the next ...

Cardinals from across the globe will gather in the Sistine Chapel from May 7 to choose the next pope, with no contact with ...

Brad Pitt has signed up for Conclave director Edward Berger’s next film. The movie, entitled The Riders, is based on Tim ...

Now that the start date of the papal conclave has been set for May 7, NPR walks through who'll be there and how they'll be electing the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

Once a candidate with a two-thirds majority is elected, the Dean, currently Cardinal Giovanni Batista Re, will ask him if he ...