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

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

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

If Roman Catholic cardinals have not picked a new pope by day three of next week's conclave, then things are not going to ...

The Vatican is finalizing preparations for the May 7 conclave, with firefighters on Friday installing a chimney on the roof ...

Pope Francis was not afraid of messiness. That seems to have been part and parcel of his pastoral freedom, charging into ...

How long will the upcoming papal conclave take? Likely not that long, according to one Cardinal, who is personally hoping for ...

The Catholic University of America chaplain Father Aquinas Guilbeau, OP, led a panel on the subject of Francis’ legacy and ...

I wish I did not have to vote because I wish that Francis were still alive. But it is a fact that he has left us,” Cardinal ...

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

On the seventh day of the Novendiales Masses for Pope Francis, Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti ended his homily with a prayer to ...

At private dinners and at formal gatherings of cardinals, talk among church leaders of who will next lead the church has ...