Cardinals respond to Becciu's withdrawal from the 2025 conclave as frontrunners emerge to succeed Pope Francis.

From cash bets on websites to online games and casual wagers among friends, experts and participants say the popularity of ...

Infighting, smear campaigns, papal letters from beyond the grave: The conclave to elect a new pope is giving the film a run ...

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 ...

Rumors about pope frontrunner Pietro Parolin have been published this week on various news sites, and sexual abuse watchdogs ...

The cardinals will gather at St. Peter’s Basilica May 7 to celebrate a special Mass before gathering in the Sistine Chapel to ...

If Roman Catholic cardinals have not picked a new pope by day three of next week's conclave, then things are not going to ...

Those gathering to elect a successor to Pope Francis say the first step to reaching a two-thirds majority is to get to know ...

5. Prayer is a work of mercy. Praying for the living and the dead is a spiritual work of mercy. When we pray for the cardinal ...

Catholic cardinals on Monday set May 7 as the start date for the conclave to elect Pope Francis' successor, delaying the ...

Cardinal Baltazar Porras Cardozo of Merida, Venezuela, arrives to attend a general congregation meeting of the College of ...

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