The secret ballot for a successor hasn’t begun. But among church leaders, talk about who will next lead the 2,000-year-old ...

A papal conclave is set to begin in Vatican City starting May 7, during which cardinals from around the world will elect the ...

Cardinals from all over the world are gathering in Rome to elect a new pope. The conclave begins on Wednesday.

Nuns don’t have a vote in the election of a pope. But nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female religious orders gathered in ...

As the Vatican prepares for a conclave to choose a new pope, American Catholics share their hopes and concerns for the Church ...

At Sunday mass in a parish next to Rome’s most notorious public housing complex and in one of the city’s most historic ...

Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline of France cooed at babies on Sunday at a church in the Monti neighborhood of Rome. Cardinal Peter ...

All 133 Catholic cardinals who will vote for a new pope have arrived in Rome, the Vatican said on Monday, two days before ...

As a fireworks expert tests the Vatican's contemporary system for "holy smoke," Catholic cardinals mull their divergent priorities for Pope Francis' successor.

That includes Timothy Cardinal Dolan. CBS News New York's Mary Calvi caught up with New York's archbishop near the Vatican on ...

Two cardinals, Michael Czerny and Chibly Langlois, sat down with ABC News to discuss the challenges facing the church that ...

They don’t have a vote in the pope’s election, but nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female Catholic orders met in Rome on ...