New popes wear the cassock with a pellegrina, or short cape, a white silk sash and a white "zucchetto", or papal skullcap. It ...

Erdő is regarded as one of the smartest, most strategic candidates on the list. As an expert in Church law, he has been on a ...

Cardinals could pick a progressive pope ready to build off the changes Francis brought to the church or a conservative who could ratchet them back.

Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, who became the first cardinal to ever be prosecuted by the Vatican’s criminal court in ...

Alongside the gossip and the gallows humor, the ancient and solemn rituals continue,” Chiara Barzini writes from Italy.

Pope Francis’ coffin has now been moved to St. Peter’s Basilica, just a few hundred yards from the Chapel of Santa Marta, where he will lie in state until his funeral on Saturday. Tens of thousands ...

Set in the aftermath of a Pope's death, Conclave follows the cardinal tasked to oversee the selection of a new leader of the Catholic Church.

Conclave: Inside the secret election to choose the next Pope - The method the Catholic Church uses to select their leader has ...

Timeline: How Pope Francis’ funeral and the Conclave to select his successor will work - The late pope will break from ...

So many people lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state at St. Peter’s Basilica that the Vatican kept the doors open all night, closing for just one hour from 6 a.m. until 7 a.m. Thursday ...

The papal funeral is scheduled for the early hours of April 26. It will be a more modest event than others, for a modest man.

Pope Francis was thankful that he was able to greet throngs of people in St. Peter’s Square on Easter, a day before he died, though he ...