There are no official candidates for the papacy, but some cardinals are considered “papabile,” or possessing the ...

Ghana’s Cardinal Peter Turkson is seen as one of the Church’s most influential men from Africa, where Christianity is quickly ...

The French president held a series of meetings with cardinals and other Church officials while in the Italian capital last ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a native of Chicago, has spent the bulk of his career outside the United States. Supporters ...

A possible contender for the papacy, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi has worked with the needy and the disenfranchised, even as he ...

Faithful attend a National Memorial Service for the late Pope Francis, at the Roman Catholic church, in Soweto, South Africa, Thursday, May 1, 2025 ...

The video allegedly showing a man being escorted away from the late pontiff's body appeared online before the lying in state ...

The death of Pope Francis and global aid cuts led by the United States could complicate the work of a group of experts ...

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

Cardinals from around the world are preparing for what will be the largest papal conclave in history, and the first African American cardinal in the U.S., who began his Catholic journey on Chicago's ...

Hollywood and the media love intrigue. And the interregnum in the Catholic Church provides much fodder for an institution that has long resisted secularism.