All eyes will be on a small chimney on the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel today as the Catholic Church’s most senior leaders meet ...

Cardinals are meeting in Vatican City to choose a new leader for the Catholic Church. This follows the death of Pope Francis.

Sweden's first cardinal, Anders Arborelius, is a convert to Catholicism in the overwhelmingly Protestant Scandinavian country ...

Whoever is picked will become one of the world's most powerful figures, considered to be the successor of St Peter, the first ...

Long touted as a potential successor to Pope Francis, Hungary's conservative Cardinal Peter Erdo is a respected expert on ...

Catholic cardinals will enter into conclave this week to choose a new pope, with the Church's 1.4 billion members holding ...

The cardinals have met in 12 general congregations, but they still do not know each other well and there are no clear ...

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to elect the ...

Outside of the church, Ireland has seen societal change to traditional attitudes, in the form of the thirty-fourth amendment, ...

African outreach was among Pope Francis' legacies, observers say, with numerous visits and a message of mercy inspiring ...

The Catholic Church said priests will be excommunicated if they follow a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report confessions about child abuse to law enforcement.