Leading the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church. Location: Vatican City. There are no official candidates for the papacy, but ...

Cardinals respond to Becciu's withdrawal from the 2025 conclave as frontrunners emerge to succeed Pope Francis.

For more than 750 years, strict rules have guarded what cardinals can and cannot eat to prevent hidden messages stuffed ...

There are currently 252 cardinals, 133 of whom are eligible and expected to vote in the conclave. They range in age from 45 to 99.

Pope Francis chose 149 of the current members of the college, most of whom will help choose his successor as cardinal ...

Pope Francis’s financial reforms cleaned up Vatican institutions but failed to fix its deficits and underfunded pension ...

VATICAN CITY - As Catholic cardinals meet to choose a new pope, they will face a big question: Is it time, after three ...

Etchings from the 16th and 17th centuries aimed at Rome’s tourist market stirred up interest in the conclave’s ceremonial ...

Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline of Marseille, France — considered a contender to be the next pope — has been jokingly referred to ...

Some hard-liners within the Catholic community are vouching for right-wing candidates like Athanasius Schneider, a bishop in ...

Will the adage 'fat pope, thin pope' bear out as cardinals pick a successor to Pope Francis in the May 7 conclave?