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 ...

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

"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." ...

Besides the obvious speculation about the next pope, many in Rome are wondering what name he will choose.

The image is raising eyebrows on social media, at the Vatican, from a group representing Catholic bishops in New York and from Italians.

Following Pope Francis' death in April, people around the world wagered most often on one cardinal to become the next leader of the Catholic Church.

In Pope John Paul II’s rules for the conclave, excommunication was always a possibility, but Pope Benedict XVI made it ...

In May 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump posted an artificial intelligence-generated image of himself as pope on Truth Social ...