Cardinal Justin Francis Rigali, the former archbishop of Philadelphia, is outside the age cutoff for the conclave to select ...

While Pope Franci s accomplished a lot in his 12-year papacy, he left much unfinished business and many challenges for his ...

Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini is taking to his first conclave the same spirit that guided his decades-long front-line ministry ...

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The method the Catholic Church uses to select their leader has remained virtually unchanged for the last 800 years ...

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British Cardinal Vincent Nichols provides an insider's view of what's going on these days before the conclave to elect a ...

In today’s world, with new technologies mixed with social media, one could excuse a 19-year-old trying to get a laugh on the ...

Just days before the conclave to elect the next pope, cardinals are confronting deep-rooted issues—ranging from clerical ...

Vatican firefighters have installed the iconic chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, a key step ahead of the May 7 conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor. Black smoke = no pope yet; white smoke = a new ...

The image, shared Friday night on Trump's Truth Social site and later reposted by the White House on its official X account, ...

The 2025 papal conclave will be the largest in Catholic Church history, with 133 cardinals set to elect the successor to Pope Francis. Surpassing the previous record of 115 electors in 2013, this ...