At Masses across Rome and socioeconomic lines, Catholics prayed the next pope focuses on poverty and peace days before the ...

At private dinners and at formal gatherings of cardinals, talk among church leaders of who will next lead the church has ...

He will be the first pope in over 350 years to be buried in Rome at St. Mary Major, where only seven other popes are buried. Mosaics from the fifth century and a ceiling gilded with gold said to ...

With Pope Francis' passing, the Roman Catholic Church is focused on electing his replacement. Here's what that means.

The papal conclave—the election of the next Pope—is set to begin on May 7, and will see 133 cardinals gather to vote.

Alongside the gossip and the gallows humor, the ancient and solemn rituals continue,” Chiara Barzini writes from Italy.

I never knew how much I wanted to go to Rome until I got there.

Raniero Mancinelli, an 86-year-old tailor from Rome, is preparing a cassock for the new pope, whose selection will take place ...

Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline of France cooed at babies on Sunday at a church in the Monti neighborhood of Rome. Cardinal Peter ...