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

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb of Pope Francis on Sunday, filing past the simple white ...

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

Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle is sometimes called the "Asian Francis" because of his infectious smile, easy laugh, and ...

Francis is not the only pope to rest there. Seven others are buried on the grounds, most notably St. Pius V, who established ...

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

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 ...

A possible contender for the papacy, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi has worked with the needy and the disenfranchised, even as he ...