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

The date was chief on the agenda of cardinals holding informal meetings Monday to work out church business following the ...

Catholic cardinals on Monday set May 7 as the start date for the conclave to elect Pope Francis' successor, delaying the ...

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

Hundreds of thousands gathered in St. Peter's Square on April 27, a day after Pope Francis' funeral, for another ceremony to ...

Roman Catholic cardinals will begin their conclave to elect the Church's 267th pontiff and a successor to Pope Francis on May ...

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 ...