Hollywood and the media love intrigue. And the interregnum in the Catholic Church provides much fodder for an institution ...

Fans of the Oscar-nominated movie “Conclave,” which is about a papal election, might think they have a head start on what’s ...

Not only did Pope Francis value and promote the dignity of labor, he was someone who personally worked extremely hard, finding joy and rest in work itself, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández said at the ...

The secret vote that elected Pope Gregory X lasted from November 1268 to September 1271. It was the first example of a papal ...

The proportion of cardinal electors from Africa and the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America, and countries in ...

The world won’t know the next leader of the world’s Catholics until he appears before a throng of supporters in St. Peter’s ...

COMMENTARY: Ecclesiology, not just personality, is at stake in this conclave. A new pope must resist false reform rooted in ...

After every round of voting during a conclave, the ballots are burned with chemicals in a process that enables the cardinals ...

The Catholic Church's cardinals are meeting next week at the Vatican to elect the new pope in a centuries-old process called conclave. Recent conclaves took a few days, but the longest-ever in history ...

Cardinals are already meeting ahead of the formal conclave, where they will confront major issues facing the Catholic Church ...

Pope Francis, who presided over the Roman Catholic Church and its estimated 1.4 billion followers for 12 years, died April 21 ...