Small nations and states will seek their place under the sun, while the great powers will demand that they renounce their moral wealth—above all, their ...

Experts say there isn’t a single front-runner, but several names have been cited as indications of the direction the Roman ...

Two years ago Pope Francis chose Prevost to replace Marc Ouellet as prefect of the Vatican's Dicastery for Bishops, handing ...

NCR analyzed the biographies, background, articles, speeches, homilies and media interviews of members of the College of ...

White smoke is pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, signaling that a pope has been elected to lead the Catholic Church ...

It was 5:30 pm on a typically moody Friday in Kumasi—the kind of day when the clouds gather for a union meeting with thunder ...

The conclave to elect a new pope will start behind the closed doors of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, with all cardinals under the age of 80 able to vote ...

Their choice could have a profound impact on the Catholic Church and the world's 1.4 billion baptised Roman Catholics ... 2015 vote in favour in the Republic of Ireland "a defeat for humanity".

within the highest hierarchy of the church ... becomes the third cardinal in the history of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Appointed three years ago as archbishop of the only Latin-rite Catholic ...

After Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was elected pope, genealogists got to work. What they found surprised them.