Following Pope Francis's death, the Vatican has closed the Sistine Chapel to prepare for the papal conclave. Cardinals will ...

The voting is highly choreographed and time-consuming to avoid any possibility of fraud or doubt about the results.

The White House and Vatican have had a relationship stretching back to at least 1919, and includes Pope John Paul II and ...

Black smoke indicates a non-conclusive answer, and white smoke indicates that a new ... take an oath of secrecy and seal the church's doors. As for the election, each cardinal votes by secret ...

This year's Good Friday service at NYC's Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, a mostly Latino congregation with many immigrants, ...

Black smoke indicates a non-conclusive answer, and white smoke indicates that a new pope has been ... take an oath of secrecy ...

Vatican City • In a solemn and majestic funeral on the steps of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Roman Catholic Church on Saturday ...

The Vatican and White House have for decades kept a close ... Francis was the head of the Roman Catholic Church from 2013 until his death, and had met with three U.S. presidents across his tenure.

Charleston Southern University's first site and site of historic congregation of First Baptist Church in North Charleston was ...

But Pope Francis wanted a church “with doors always wide open,” as he said ... as the American church grew less white, and appointed the first African-American cardinal. He allowed priests ...

Roman Catholic faithful have begun visiting the tomb of Pope Francis. Starting early Sunday they began filing past the simple ...