Preparations are ramping up in Vatican City ahead of next week’s conclave, including the installation of the chimney on the ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS)—All but four of the 135 cardinals who are eligible to enter the conclave May 7 to vote for a new pope had ...

Four of the 133 cardinal electors who will pick Pope Francis's successor in a conclave starting Wednesday have not yet ...

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 ...

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

Firefighters installed the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel on Friday which will emit white smoke to signal the election of a ...

Travellers to Rome should expect closures, visitor restrictions and crowds at some of the city’s main attractions.

It is typically absurd to think of an American as pope. But in this conclave, a Chicago-born Augustinian friar who has spent ...

The cardinals eligible to vote for the new pope will gather in the coming weeks and enter seclusion to secretly vote for the ...

As cardinals prepare to enter the Sistine Chapel in a few days to elect a new pope, they are engaged in intense discussions ...

On Friday, the day before the pope’s funeral, flight searches on Expedia for Rome for the dates of May 5-14 were up more than ...