Preparations for the conclave to find a new pope accelerated Friday with the installation of the chimney out of the Sistine ...

The conclave that begins next Wednesday to elect a successor for Pope Francis is the first in 46 ½ years for which the ...

“I believe the Holy Spirit always intervenes in the choosing of the next pope,” the Rev. Halmar Adolis Calix, a priest from ...

Since the death of Pope Francis, lists of his possible successors have proliferated on social media and in newspapers. Should ...

Welcome to America magazine’s Conclave Podcast. Our editors are on the ground in Rome covering the conclave to elect the next ...

In a pre-conclave meeting, an Italian cardinal, and backer of Cardinal Parolin as next pope, attacked Pope Francis for ...

Much of what you hear about who the next pope will be, spoken with enormous confidence by people in the know, is often ...

As we prepare for a new papacy, an important question faces the church: What foundations do we inherit from Pope Francis’ ...

But the blues is a gateway to transcendence as well as temptation, the soul-deep cry of a people in exile, capable of ...

Cardinals Rosa and Sako said they expect the conclave to be brief and last two to three days. While not revealing a name, ...

When the early Church celebrated the Eucharist, it certainly considered itself to be doing more than preaching and singing.

Canon law does not give much specific direction about who can make decisions for the church during the interregnum.