All Vatican personnel involved in supporting the upcoming papal conclave will take an oath of secrecy — under penalty of ...

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

The Vatican has announced that military jammers will block electronic communication around the Sistine Chapel during the ...

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

For Christians in the Middle East, this moment carries particular significance. These ancient communities, rooted in lands ...

In Rome, 133 cardinals have gathered to participate in the conclave starting on Wednesday. This information was provided by ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Chicago native, is getting attention as a potential pope. But scholars say an American pontiff ...

Workers and clerics assisting the dozens of Catholic cardinals set to gather Wednesday to begin voting on the next pope had ...

The post also showed how much more secular Americans have become since John F. Kennedy, the nation’s first Catholic president ...

The rules and rituals for the election of a new pope say that immediately after his election, he goes into the sacristy of ...

The papal conclave will take place as usual in the hallowed space of the Sistine Chapel. What is the history of this famous ...

COMMENTARY: Pope Francis’ successor should address four main aspects: persecution, social doctrine, missionary withering and poor governance.