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

Fiorello Maffei, a 58-year-old who lives in London, returned to Italy for the now postponed canonisation of Carlo, a Londoner ...

The proportion of cardinal electors from Africa and the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America, and countries in ...

Pope Francis, the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, will be mourned and buried at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major ...

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

Pope Francis' death set off a series of traditions that culminates in a vote for his successor. Here are some of the possible ...

The secret vote that elected Pope Gregory X lasted from November 1268 to September 1271. It was the first example of a papal ...

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

Prince William will attend the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday after his father, King Charles III, gave a heartfelt ...

With delegations from about 130 countries present at Pope Francis' funeral, the seating chart needed to be organized ...

The US president and the pontiff frequently exchanged criticisms over compassion for migrants, a group Trump has repeatedly ...

It could very well be the biggest sporting event ever held inside the walls of the Vatican. The Giro d’Italia will pay homage ...