"The court is attempting to handle the matter in such a way as to help Father Peter and to avoid scandal to the Church," the ...

Hype has been building on social media around the Catholic Church's secretive, centuries-old tradition of conclaves to elect a new pope, animating users from the White House on ...

Among the roughly 1.4 billion Catholics around the world, many are keenly anticipating the upcoming conclave at the Vatican ...

Cardinals electing a new pope have some fundamental questions to weigh, beyond whether to give the Catholic Church its first ...

I’ve heard it said that it could be providential that two elections that will shape our future are both happening soon, ...

Cleaners and cooks. Doctors and nurses. Even drivers and elevator operators. The support staff for the cardinals who will ...

As the world waits to see who the next leader of the Catholic Church will be, more than 130 cardinals prepare for Wednesday’s ...

"And so it is what is, I guess, but it's very unfortunate," said Milwaukee Archbishop Jeffrey S. Grob. "It's a very serious ...

We may be stuck with labels drawn from the political world. But the cardinals who enter the conclave tomorrow need to select ...

Taking the estimated number of Catholics in a country and dividing them by the number of cardinal-electors gives some idea of ...

As the voting to choose the next pope gets underway, serious questions loom about Europe’s future influence on the Church.

The Catholic Church reserves the priesthood for men, so only men will choose the leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.