There are no official candidates for the papacy, but some cardinals are considered “papabile.” That means they possess the ...

Massa traces this strain in American Catholicism back to what’s been called the “comic opera heresy” of a fellow Jesuit, ...

Speculation surrounding a conclave to elect a pope is a time-honored tradition. But for the impending conclave following ...

Ballots are burned in the process, but the smoke seen by the world is created using another stove, the Vatican Information ...

Pope Francis, who led the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025, was admired for his commitment to simplicity and humility. He ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A diverse cast of cardinals gathering at the Vatican for Pope Francis’ funeral will soon turn to voting ...

With Pope Francis’ funeral in the rearview mirror, the focus at the Vatican shifts to the forthcoming papal conclave and the ...

People have been left stunned after seeing what the late pontiff's bedroom looked like and why he chose to live that way.

Whoever emerges from the coming conclave as the new leader of the 1.4-billion-member Catholic Church will face a myriad of ...

Pope Francis, the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, will be mourned and buried at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major ...

World leaders and rank-and-file Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral Saturday that highlighted his ...

Francis choreographed the funeral himself when he revised and simplified the Vatican’s rites and rituals last year.