If the vote doesn't yield the two-third majority needed to elect the new pope, the cardinals go back to guesthouse Casa Santa ...

There is a famous quote attributed to then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1997, in comments to a Bavarian television station.

Two of the 10 U.S. cardinals participating in the conclave to elect a new pope are from the tristate area: Cardinal Timothy ...

The process to elect the 267th pope begins Wednesday as cardinals gather in the Sistine Chapel. They will decide whether to ...

A tense papal election is expected to pit late Pope Francis’ number two, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, against an array of ...

So, could the new pope come from Africa? And what is at stake for the continent as the catholic church chooses its next leader? Alan Kasujja speaks to Reverend Professor Paulinus Odozor, a Professor ...

Boston Archbishop Richard Henning celebrated a mass in Braintree on Tuesday, to ask the Holy Spirit to guide the Cardinals as they choose Francis' successor.

More than a billion Catholics from around the world await the decision of 133 cardinals who will on Wednesday begin the process of electing the next head of the Catholic church inside Rome’s Sistine ...