Cardinals will meet in the Sistine Chapel to decide the next leader of the Catholic Church. White smoke will blow from the ...

It took nearly 440 years after the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines before the first Filipino, Rufino Jiao Santos, joined the College of Cardinals in 1960. Another 52 years passed before ...

Cardinals entered St Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday to celebrate a final Mass before the conclave to elect the next pope. The ...

Excluded from the conclave to elect a new pope Wednesday — and more broadly from the Church’s entire global priesthood — some ...

The cardinals are participating in the most geographically diverse conclave in the faith’s 2,000-year history.

As Cardinals gathered in the Sistine Chapel to begin the voting process for the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, we ...

Forty-eight-hundred-and-four miles separate Vatican City from Chicago's Holy Name Cathedral, but a group of faithful gathered ...

Catholics in Boise are closely watching the Vatican as the papal conclave begins in the Sistine Chapel to elect a new pope ...

People around the world are waiting for the new pope to be selected. Monsignor Scott Friend of Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church talked about how the church handles this process.

The great doors of the Sistine Chapel shut Wednesday after the cry of “extra omnes” — Latin for “all out” — and 133 cardinals ...

The conclave to name a new Pope is more than a curiosity at Saint Mary's High School in Colorado Springs. The events serve as ...

That the Church should opt for the poor is particularly relevant in Asia, where millions suffer extreme poverty ...