Cardinals are high-ranking officials of the Catholic Church whose main duties include advising, governing the Roman Curia, ...

Some see the byword as a rallying call in a conservative campaign to reverse Francis’ push for a more inclusive church.

Red-hatted cardinals are expected to pick a date for the conclave to elect a new leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, ...

Pope Francis’ death fires the gun on what many see as a battle for the soul of the church – pitting those who want to ...

The church is divided. The problem is to find the one who unites, not pretend that it isn’t divided,” one church historian ...

In closed-door sessions called congregations, cardinals have given 70 speeches to their brethren. The conclave is likely to ...

The death of Pope Francis has triggered a period of mourning in the Vatican and signals the start of a millennia-old process ...

A Benedictine abbot and a Capuchin cardinal will offer spiritual meditations on the needs of the Catholic Church to the ...

Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb of Pope Francis on Sunday, filing past the simple white tomb in St. Mary ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin told some 200,000 people in St. Peter’s Square that Pope Francis had made the message of God’s ...

Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the acting head of the Catholic Church, spent most of his career in the U.S. before being called to ...

He has welcomed LGBTQ individuals and supported the expansion of female leadership in religious roles. Will he be the next ...