You can read the English translation of the prepared text of the homily, delivered in Italian by Cardinal Giovanni Battista ...

He who enters the conclave as pope, leaves it as a cardinal.” In other words, any candidate seen as the frontrunner before ...

British Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the 79-year-old archbishop of Westminster, was adamant that the church must strive for ...

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

The Vatican has announced the date of the conclave to elect a new pope. According to Reuters, it will begin on May 7.

Pope Francis was laid to rest over the weekend in Rome, after a funeral mass in Vatican City. As millions watched the proceedings on television, a Winchester, Virginia, priest was in the city to ...

The Vatican has closed the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather for the conclave to elect the next pope after the ...

As cardinals meet in Rome ahead of a conclave to elect the next pope, a Peruvian cardinal accused of sexual abuse and whose ...