A Filipino or Congolese pope would signal that Catholicism’s demographic heart now beats in Manila and Kinshasa, rather than ...

The order, delivered Wednesday by Archbishop Diego Ravelli allows the beginning of voting to elect the 267th pope to follow ...

The 133 cardinals from 70 countries will be locked inside the Sistine Chapel, where they will vote in secret and silence, a ...

With a Vatican official calling out “extra omnes” and the door to the Sistine Chapel shutting, the conclave to elect Pope ...

The 133 cardinals from 70 countries will be locked inside the Sistine Chapel, where they will vote in secret and silence, a ...

Greg Grandin’s superb, punchy account of the deep ties between the US and Latin America forms a powerful case for closer ties in the present ...

European pope in centuries, Francis was especially aware of colonialism’s impact and the need to embrace many cultures within ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday ...

Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become ...

None of the 266 popes in history have been from America. But ten Americans are eligible to vote in the conclave to select the ...

Despite record cocaine seizures in production and transit countries, huge quantities of the drug arrived in consumer markets ...