VATICAN CITY—Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and ...

Black smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel's chimney on Wednesday, signaling that the College of Cardinals had not elected a pope.

The potential influence of the spiritual leader of 1.4 billion Catholics attracts the attention of the secular world as well.

A South Carolina woman has been arrested and charged for fraudulently getting Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP ...

Groups representing survivors made last-minute appeals for the next pontiff to definitively resolve the crisis, which has ...

Costa Rica’s Catholics pray for the 2025 conclave as 133 cardinals elect the next pope. Learn how the nation’s bishops and ...

One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a ...

Cardinals have no contact with the outside world after the master of liturgical ceremonies utters the words “Extra Omnes” the ...

Black smoke has poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave ...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York made his way to the Sistine Chapel May 7 to participate in the conclave process to elect the next pope.

As more than a billion Catholics around the world await the election of a new pope, all eyes are on the Sistine Chapel, where 133 cardinals are beginning the secretive process known as a conclave.

Among those secluded at the Sistine Chapel and its environs during the papal conclave to select the successor to Pope Francis ...