The Catholic Church's cardinal electors are locked inside the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican to choose a successor to Pope ...

The cardinals have gathered in Vatican City to choose the 267th pope. St Peter, regarded as the first pope, was elected ...

As the conclave to elect the next pope begins, Pietro Parolin has emerged as the betting favorite to succeed Pope Francis, ...

The papal conclave, the secretive election process to elect the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church, commences on ...

Roman Catholic cardinals will begin the task of electing a new pope, locking themselves away from the world until they choose ...

Ross Douthat, a Times Opinion columnist, hosted an online conversation with Michael Brendan Dougherty, a senior writer at ...

Catholic cardinals are gathering at the Vatican to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21. Voting will ...

Pope Francis, who died at 88 last month, was the first pontiff to be publicly inclusive of the LGBTQ Catholic community.

The next pope will inherit a soaring deficit and culture of financial malpractice that Francis tried and failed to solve even ...

Francis was imperfect, but also heroic. He believed the church was for everyone and that no sin was beyond forgiveness. He ...