Here are some facts about conclaves past, derived from historical studies including Miles Pattenden's “Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450–1700,” and interviews with experts including Elena ...

ATLANTA — Catholics around the world continue to mourn the loss of the Church's leader, after Pope Francis died Easter Monday. The death of the 88-year-old pontiff, who led the world's nearly 1.5 ...

ROME (WHTM) — By the 1500s the Catholic Church was suffering a crisis of bad timing, dating from well back before the beginning of Christianity. When Rome was founded back on April 21, 753 B.C.E.

Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory speaks during the Feb. 5, 2023, Mass for Black History Month at Holy Comforter-St. Cyprian Church in Washington in this file photo. (OSV News photo/Mihoko Owada, ...

The conclave began May 7 and continues until a new pope is selected. Who votes for a pope? Only cardinals under the age of 80 are eligible to vote in a conclave. They are known as the cardinal ...

The details of how most animals became domesticated lie deep in the murky past, much debated and glimpsed only in tantalizing hints from fossils and DNA. Except for rabbits. Their story was clear, and ...

As Pope Francis prepares to mark the tenth anniversary of his pontificate in March, one hallmark of his papacy has been to make both sides of the American political aisle "uncomfortable," panelists, ...

After the death of a Pope, a papal conclave—an incredibly secretive and important process— takes place in the Vatican as cardinals determine who will next lead the Catholic Church. Following the ...

There have been 266 papal leaders of the Catholic Church since Jesus Christ’s death in the AD 30s through Pope Francis – Jorge Mario Bergoglio – who died on Easter Monday at 88. The most prominent ...