American and Peruvian Position: Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops; president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin ...

Pope Francis​' popemobile​ is being converted into a clinic to help children in the Gaza Strip, the Vatican announced​, ...

Beyond simply picking who the next pope will be, players and gamblers also can guess how many tries it will take the ...

ROME (AP) — Rome is bustling with jasmine blooming and tourists swarming. But behind closed doors, these are the days of ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost joins the conclave Wednesday to pick Pope Francis' successor. His rise in the faith began at a South ...

Though Francis didn’t make major changes to the conclave, his outreach to what he called “peripheries’’ leaves an imprint that will be felt this week.

Activists are fighting a church that wants to put the scandal behind it and a public that may be tiring of it.

The Catholic Church — the role of the papacy in particular — first caught my attention when I was a semi-lapsed Protestant attending a quintessentially secular, Marxist-leaning university in Boston.

The Vatican announced ahead of the Cardinals' assembly that all 133 Catholic cardinals set to vote for the successor of Pope ...

A Jerusalem cardinal who spent decades fostering interfaith ties among Christians, Jews and Muslims is a leading contender to ...

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