On Friday, the day before the pope’s funeral, flight searches on Expedia for Rome for the dates of May 5-14 were up more than ...

As cardinals prepare to enter the Sistine Chapel in a few days to elect a new pope, they are engaged in intense discussions ...

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

I expect it won’t go as quickly as the last conclave. But maybe I’ll be proven wrong. I would be happy about that,” said ...

With 135 cardinals eligible to vote, the coming conclave is set to be the largest in the history of the Catholic Church and ...

Much of what you hear about who the next pope will be, spoken with enormous confidence by people in the know, is often ...

Travellers to Rome should expect closures, visitor restrictions and crowds at some of the city’s main attractions.

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The Vatican is closing the Sistine Chapel to the public as part of preparations for the conclave to elect the next pope after ...

Survivors of clerical abuse, experts in child protection and victim advocacy groups have collectively decried the presence of ...

The papal conclave will commence in May, when the cardinals will meet at St. Peter's Basilica and pray for the wisdom to select the next pope.

Matteo Bruni, director of the Holy See Press Office, had stated at an April 29 press briefing that two cardinal electors ...