As members of the College of Cardinals prepare for the conclave, they face a profound choice: Build on the late pope’s ...

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

The proportion of cardinal electors from Africa and the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America, and countries in ...

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

Hollywood and the media love intrigue. And the interregnum in the Catholic Church provides much fodder for an institution ...

Representing a little over 4% of the globe’s Catholics but nearly 8% of those who will participate in the papal conclave, the ...

Cardinal Gerhard Müller has called on the next pope to stand up to the "gay lobby" as the race to choose the next leader of ...

Cardinal Camillo Ruini emphasizes the need to choose a pope who can unite the Church and restore it to Catholics while ...

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

Cardinals are high-ranking officials of the Catholic Church whose main duties include advising, governing the Roman Curia, ...

Four frontrunners have emerged as the most likely contenders known as papabile to succeed Pope Francis but at least a dozen ...