A new pope will be selected to lead the Catholic Church following the death of Pope Francis. The pope is chosen during a ...

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Although he was a pontiff well-attuned to the concerns of ordinary Catholics, Pope Francis had a surprising blind spot when it came to the abuse crisis. He ...

VATICAN CITY — Few could have predicted that a comment Pope Francis made during a 2018 visit to Chile would blow up into the ...

After Pope Francis’s death at the age of 88, the process of electing the next pontiff will begin. Cardinal electors, the vast ...

Even though cardinals don’t campaign for the job, there are always front-runners going into a conclave to choose the next ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Argentine pontiff who initiated a historic process of reforms in the Church in 2013, also ...

Pope Francis, who led the Roman Catholic Church for more than 12 years and became a global symbol of humility, compassion and reform, died Monday.

Fostering unity is essential to a pope’s job description. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, an authoritative ...

What we know: How is the next pope chosen? In the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, the cardinals are just below the pope and above typical bishops. There are more than 250 in the College of ...

Pope Francis’s willingness to kneel before the least of us is a lesson in what it means to be great, not in the cocoon of ...

Francis, 88, died on April 21. The pope will be honored with a nine-day mourning period known as the Novendiale, a tradition that began in Ancient Rome. The conclave is held two to three weeks ...