This process is called a conclave, and it is how the Roman Catholic Church chooses its next ... A conclave is a secret meeting of the College of Cardinals who vote to elect a new pope.

are part of the most diverse College of Cardinals in the Catholic Church's centuries-long history. As geographic and ideological factions take shape around the vision for the Church's future ...

It’s long been said that to sing is to pray twice. And a group of Catholic clergymen in western Massachusetts that truly ...

With a conclave to select a new pope typically not taking place for two to three weeks after a pontiff's passing, several weeks can go by without a pope leading the Roman Catholic Church.

According to the United States Council of Catholic Bishops, before the conclave, the College of Cardinals, which includes 252 cardinals, holds a series of meetings at the Vatican called general ...

That fact and that he will be chosen by an all-male College of Cardinals ... But because the Catholic Church does not ordain women as priests, according to social elite label makers, it must ...

There is no formal candidate process for the College of Cardinals to pull from when selecting the next pope – meaning any Catholic male could potentially be chosen as the next leader of the ...

This conclave will also be the most diverse in the history of the Catholic Church, said Mathew Schmalz, a professor of religious studies at the College of the Holy Cross, a liberal arts college in ...