Pope Francis receives U.S. Vice President JD Vance, left, before bestowing the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for to the city and to the world) blessing at the end of the Easter mass at the Vatican, April 20, ...

President Trump has posted an AI-generated image of himself dressed as pope, drawing criticism ahead of the papal conclave.

VATICAN CITY >> If Roman Catholic cardinals have not picked a new pope by day three of next week’s conclave, then things are ...

British Cardinal Vincent Nichols provides an insider's view of what's going on before the conclave to elect a successor to ...

Stoves have been installed in the Sistine Chapel that will generate smoke, marking the progress of the conclave's mission to choose a new pope.

The controversial image appeared days after Donald Trump joked that being pope "would be my number one choice." ...

Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini is taking to his first conclave the same spirit that guided his decades-long front-line ministry ...

As cardinals prepare for the largest papal conclave in history, battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the church ...