Vatican City, May 07, 2025 -The cardinal leading the last mass before a conclave to elect a new pope urged his peers ...

The College of Cardinals will meet beginning Wednesday, May 7, 2025, to vote in a papal conclave -- a secret ballot where two ...

Cardinals have entered St. Peter's Basilica to celebrate the final Mass before the conclave to elect a new pope. The dean of ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls ...

The Papal Conclave becomes a magnet for tourists to visit the Vatican, even though the process of electing a new Pope to ...

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the 91-year-old dean of the College of Cardinals, presided over the liturgy, underlining the ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday began the ...

This, then — love it or leave it — is what popes are for, according to the Catechism: keeping the bishops in step, keeping ...

Chaput may assert the pope was "inadequate to the real issues," but the truth is that Francis was challenging to those more ...

Papal conclave ballots have been burned to maintain secrecy for centuries. Ballot smoke has been used to announce a decision since 1914.

St. Peter's Basilica for the final mass before the conclave to elect the next pope, marking a significant moment for the ...

When Garrett spoke of sinful empathy, he merely echoed writers like Joe Rigney, who helped popularize the idea years before ...