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

The Vatican is prepared to receive more than 100 cardinals who will participate in the conclave to pick Pope Francis' successor as the leader of the Catholic Church. CBS News' Chris Livesay reports.

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

The oath, which explicitly forbids recording or disclosing anything from within the conclave, underscores the Church's ...

The Prophecy of Popes, a Latin-based legend, claims there will not be a 113th Pope, causing conspiracy theorists to believe ...

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

ROME (AP) — 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 Monday to chart a course forward, a few miles from where ...

Roman Catholic cardinals across the globe are preparing to select a new pope, with the papal conclave kicking off on ...

"We support whoever is the best person," Singapore's Cardinal William Goh said. "We don't choose a pope based on continent, based on race, based on language." ...

The oath-taking is being held in the Pauline Chapel at the Vatican for all those assigned to the upcoming conclave. They ...

Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini is taking to his first conclave the same spirit that guided his decades-long front-line ministry ...