There is a famous quote attributed to then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1997, in comments to a Bavarian television station.

As the conclave to elect the next pope begins Wednesday at the Vatican, four candidates have emerged as clear ...

On the eve of the conclave to elect the next pope, the world's smallest country, Vatican City, is engulfed in commotion as ...

African outreach was among Pope Francis' legacies, observers say, with numerous visits and a message of mercy inspiring ...

An antipope is a person who makes a competing claim to the papacy, in opposition to the legitimately elected pope.

USA TODAY will stream coverage of the conclave on its YouTube channel, available here or at the embed below. The first day's livestream is scheduled to run from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday, May 7 ...

As more than a billion Catholics around the world await the election of a new pope, all eyes will be on the Sistine Chapel, where 133 cardinals will begin the secretive process known as a conclave.

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 ...

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

Sweden's first cardinal, Anders Arborelius, is a convert to Catholicism in the overwhelmingly Protestant Scandinavian country ...

Ghana's Cardinal Peter Turkson is seen as one of the Church's most influential men from Africa, where Christianity is quickly growing - and which some believe could be the birthplace of the next pope.