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

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb of Pope Francis on Sunday, filing past the simple white ...

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

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

The world won’t know the next leader of the world’s Catholics until he appears before a throng of supporters in St. Peter’s ...

A possible contender for the papacy, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi has worked with the needy and the disenfranchised, even as he ...

All Roman Catholics are Christians, but not the other way around, differing in beliefs about the sacraments, the pope, the ...

Just days before the papal conclave is set to take place, the official White House account on X posted the AI-generated image ...

The pope has died. Hundreds of cardinals are gathering in Rome. The secret ballot for a successor hasn’t begun. But among church leaders, talk about who will next lead the 2,000-year-old church ...

Tens of thousands of people have lined the four-mile route between St. Peter's Basilica and Rome's Basilica of Saint Mary ...

In the jasmine-scented, tourist-thronged streets of Rome, a quiet drama unfolds behind closed doors. Cardinals, gathered to ...