Sitting by his sewing machine and surrounded by photographs capturing his encounters with various popes, Mancinelli explained ...

Despite the firestorm surrounding his "Pope Trump" post, President Donald Trump claimed that the outrage was not from the ...

Is there really a U.S. delegation of cardinals, a team that would wear the same jersey? Do these players feel like teammates?

The United States is the home country for 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope. That's more than any ...

The cardinals who enter the Sistine Chapel use smoke signals to let the outside world know when a new pope has been chosen.

There has never been an American pope, but Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost could change that. He is on some lists of possible ...

The media have never had so much influence on the men who pick the pope.

VATICAN CITY — Cardinals wrapped up their pre-conclave meetings Tuesday, trying to identify a possible new pope who could ...

Here’s a look at some of the leading papal contenders, with the proviso that favorites don’t typically end up getting the nod ...

The secret election appears wide open but here are some of the names, in alphabetical order, being talked about as possible ...

What the world’s Indigenous Catholics don’t want to lose with the death of the first pontiff from the Southern Hemisphere: ...