It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that ended the longest papal election in the Catholic Church’s history, forging for the first time the word “conclave.” The ...

While Pope Francis accomplished a lot in his 12-year papacy, he left much unfinished business and many challenges for his ...

The preparations are all leading up to the solemn pageantry of the start of the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis ...

EXCLUSIVE: The US President's favoured choice for the next pontiff faces long odds of becoming the next Bishop of Rome due to ...

COMMENTARY: The greatest pre-conclave homily was preached by St. John Paul II in 1978, on the Gospel where Christ asks Peter ...

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Two papal tailors and no conclave orders.The conclave that begins next Wednesday to elect a successor for Pope Francis is the ...

The voting is highly choreographed and time-consuming to avoid any possibility of fraud or doubt about the results.

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