Pope Francis’s modest tomb drew massive queues on the first day of public viewing in Rome on Sunday, a day after an estimated ...

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

Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb of Pope Francis on Sunday, filing past the simple white tomb in St. Mary ...

A popular saying in Vatican circles is that if you “enter a conclave as pope, you leave as a cardinal.”It implies the<a ...

Plus, “Conclave” gets a streaming boost, Emily Skeggs coming to Bucks County Playhouse, and Kristin Chenoweth to perform at ...

World leaders from 160 nations as well as members of the royal families of Europe joined a congregation of 200,000 Romans and ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Philip Shenon, author of "Jesus Wept: Seven Popes and the Battle for the Soul of the Catholic Church," about how Pope Francis' legacy will shape the upcoming conclave.

People lined up from the early hours of Sunday to bid farewell to Pope Francis in front of his tomb in the Papal Basilica of ...

The conclave is a time-honored process conducted in secrecy behind the locked doors of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.

The church is divided. The problem is to find the one who unites, not pretend that it isn’t divided,” one church historian ...

Pope Francis died at age 88 on April 21, setting off a series of centuries-old rituals to select a new leader of the Catholic ...

As a result of Francis’ expansion of the diversity of cardinals who will elect his successor, all that is certain about the ...