A seasoned diplomat who worked with Pope Francis for 12 years, Cardinal Pietro Parolin is well-known in Rome and abroad, and ...

President John Dramani Mahama has made a case for Ghana's Cardinal Peter Appiah Turkson as the next Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.According to President Mahama, the 76-year old Cardinal Turkson ...

The decision was made during a closed-door meeting of the College of Cardinals and announced at a media briefing at the ...

Whoever succeeds Pope Francis will inherit his momentous and controversial legacy of relations with Indigenous people ...

The conclave consists of Cardinals from around the world gathering together at the Sistine Chapel for a closed-door meeting to decide the next leader of the Catholic church.

Cardinals have no contact with the outside world after the master of liturgical ceremonies utters the words “Extra Omnes” the ...

The papal conclave will commence in May, when the cardinals will meet at St. Peter's Basilica and pray for the wisdom to select the next pope.

The Vatican announced details Tuesday of the schedule for the start of the conclave on May 7, the eagerly anticipated secret election of a new pontiff following the death of pope Francis. The ...

Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, OFM Conv, presided at the Mass on the fourth day of the Novendiales, the Church’s nine days of ...

Catholic Church leaders in Africa remember Francis as a pontiff who kept the continent close to his heart, advocating for its ...

Wheelchairs rolled across cobblestones and walking aids clicked on the marble floors of St. Peter’s Basilica as people with ...

Massa traces this strain in American Catholicism back to what’s been called the “comic opera heresy” of a fellow Jesuit, ...