Those gathering to elect a successor to Pope Francis say the first step to reaching a two-thirds majority is to get to know ...

The Take It Down Act, which seeks to enact stricter penalties for the distribution of non-consensual intimate imagery, ...

Each person who signs up for the pontifical campaign will be assigned to pray for one of the 135 cardinal electors ...

After his 2020 downfall, Becciu had said he would not participate in any future conclave. But in recent days he had asserted ...

From the majestic art to the white smoke, here's what to know about the Sistine Chapel, the sacred site of the conclave.

Becciu was sentenced to nearly five years in prison after a Vatican criminal court found him guilty of fraud and embezzlement ...

At 72 years of age, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, the progressive Archbishop of Newark, is one of the ten cardinals from the United States that will have a vote at the conclave to elect a new pope — and ...

The 135 cardinals eligible to elect the next pope will enter the Sistine Chapel to begin the conclave May 7, the Vatican announced.The cardinals will first celebrate the "Mass for the Election of the ...

ANALYSIS: While the de-Christianized Old Continent seems to be becoming irrelevant in view of the ongoing shift of Church leadership to the Southern Hemisphere, its cardinals will nonetheless maintain ...

Whoever succeeds Pope Francis will inherit his momentous and controversial legacy of relations with Indigenous people ...

Canon law does not give much specific direction about who can make decisions for the church during the interregnum.