Siracusa was among a group of homeless, migrants, prisoners and transgender people waiting on the steps of the Basilica of St ...

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

It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that ended the longest papal election in the Catholic Church’s history, forging for the first time the word “conclave.” The ...

Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, former president of the Italian Episcopal Conference, revealed to the Italian media that he ...

In a workshop that's a stone's throw from St. Peter's Basilica, 86-year-old Raniero Mancinelli has been sewing cassocks for ...

Nuns sexually assaulted by priests are breaking their silence on a long-standing taboo within the Catholic Church. With rising reports of abuse, the future pope faces a scandal that demands urgent ...

Nuns sexually assaulted by priests are one of the last Catholic taboos, but with reports of abuse rising, it is a scandal ...

EXCLUSIVE: The US President's favoured choice for the next pontiff faces long odds of becoming the next Bishop of Rome due to ...

COMMENTARY: The greatest pre-conclave homily was preached by St. John Paul II in 1978, on the Gospel where Christ asks Peter ...

The voting is highly choreographed and time-consuming to avoid any possibility of fraud or doubt about the results.

Conclave” the film may have introduced moviegoers to the spectacular ritual and drama of a modern conclave, but the periodic ...

President Donald Trump shared a doctored image of himself as pope, a role he cannot hold, drawing condemnation.