The 133 cardinals from 70 countries will be locked inside the Sistine Chapel, where they will vote in secret and silence, a process designed to be both contemplative and free from outside ...

Central African Republic’s capital had been torn apart by inter-religious violence leading up to Pope Francis’ 2015 visit, ...

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

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and ...

He met the crowd that packed into St. Peter ... historian of religion at Baylor University. “The church’s global population ...

They were immigrants from South America, Central Africa and Southeast ... firsthand how church leaders make decisions. She remembers watching him pass through the crowd waving and blessing babies ...

The fifty-eight-year-old Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga from Bangui, in the Central African Republic, is emotional. He has ...

A conclave to choose a new pope normally takes place 15 to 20 days after the death of a pontiff, meaning this conclave should ...

VATICAN CITY – In a solemn and majestic funeral on the steps of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Roman Catholic Church on Saturday ... blending together in the long crowd of faithful that reached ...

The body of Pope Francis was carried in a solemn procession Wednesday from his residence within the walls of the Vatican City ...

More than 250,000 people paid their respects to the pontiff at his funeral in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican said ...

The funeral of Pope Francis solemnly took place Saturday morning in St. Peter’s square drawing roughly 200,000 people, ...