Cardinals electing a new pope have some fundamental questions to weigh, beyond whether to give the Catholic Church its first ...

Beyond simply picking who the next pope will be, players and gamblers also can guess how many tries it will take the ...

They don’t have a vote in the pope’s election, but nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female Catholic orders met in Rome on ...

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

All of the 133 cardinals expected to take part in the secret conclave to elect a new pope have arrived in Rome, the Vatican ...

As a fireworks expert tests the Vatican's contemporary system for "holy smoke," Catholic cardinals mull their divergent ...

Two cardinals, Michael Czerny and Chibly Langlois, sat down with ABC News to discuss the challenges facing the church that ...

A papal conclave is set to begin in Vatican City starting May 7, during which cardinals from around the world will elect the ...

The post also showed how much more secular Americans have become since John F. Kennedy, the nation’s first Catholic president ...

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

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

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 ...