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

At Masses across Rome and socioeconomic lines, Catholics prayed the next pope focuses on poverty and peace days before the ...

Timothy Cardinal Dolan was among thousands of people who visited the tomb of Pope Francis in Rome on Sunday, one day after ...

President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself dressed as the pope. The post has since received criticism ...

For the second Sunday in a row, the balcony from where the pope prays the traditional Angelus remained empty. An unusual ...

Pope Francis, who presided over the Roman Catholic Church and its estimated 1.4 billion followers for 12 years, died April 21 ...

The papal conclave—the election of the next Pope—is set to begin on May 7, and will see 133 cardinals gather to vote.

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 ...

I never knew how much I wanted to go to Rome until I got there.

All Roman Catholics are Christians, but not the other way around, differing in beliefs about the sacraments, the pope, the ...

The pope has died. Hundreds of cardinals are gathering in Rome. The secret ballot for a successor hasn’t begun. But among church leaders, talk about who will next lead the 2,000-year-old church ...