On his way to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, Peruvian Cardinal Pedro Barreto made a quick pit stop in ...

On the second day of the conclave at the Vatican, the cardinal electors chose Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new pope, Leo XIV.

Swedish Cardinal Anders Arborelius said the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV “was first and foremost a unifying experience.

But like the other African cardinals he is a conservative and hit international prominence with his opposition to blessings of same sex unions. Could the Catholic church deal with a dose of ...

Within 20 days of the pope’s death, a conclave consisting of 120 cardinals out of the 138 “princes of the church” who are ... Technically, any baptized male Catholic can be elected to ...

The process to elect the next pope will begin on May 7. ROME -- Two cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church who will be voting in the upcoming papal conclave sat down with ABC News to discuss the ...

Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, is the highest-ranking diplomat in the Holy See – which is the governing body of the Catholic Church – and is believed to be among the cardinals ...

Catholic cardinals gather and sequester themselves in the Vatican for the start of a conclave to elect a new pope.

Mr. Franco is a columnist for the Milan daily Corriere della Sera and has written six books about the Vatican and the papacy. When Pope Francis anoints 21 new princes of the Roman Catholic Church ...

Furthermore, every member of the flock is obliged by the tenets of the Church to ... to elevate a Catholic leader who is a uniter will only be possible if the cardinals can prevail over their ...

The salary of the cardinals is among the highest in the Catholic Church, which is why Pope Francis reduced their salary by 10 percent during his papacy. Cardinals are one of the highest ranks in ...