For more than 750 years, strict rules have guarded what cardinals can and cannot eat to prevent hidden messages stuffed ...

Downloads of the 2024 film have surged since the death of Pope Francis—but in the 16th and 17th century, it was etchings that ...

Over-80 cardinals, who cannot vote in the conclave, are lashing out at the Francis papacy, calling for change of course.

“I believe the Holy Spirit always intervenes in the choosing of the next pope,” the Rev. Halmar Adolis Calix, a priest from ...

The conclave that begins Wednesday to elect a successor for Pope Francis is the first in 46 ½ years for which the Vatican ...

Teobaldo Visconti became pope Gregory X in September 1271. But the longest conclave in more recent times was that of 1831, ...

There are currently 252 cardinals, 133 of whom are eligible and expected to vote in the conclave. They range in age from 45 to 99.

If you’re a fan of political thrillers, you may have already seen 2024’s “Conclave.” The film, which stars Ralph Fiennes, ...

As Catholic cardinals meet to choose a new pope, they will face a big question: Is it time, after three consecutive ...

That is why most popes in history have chosen the name John. After stating his new name, the new pope is taken to the ...

Much of what you hear about who the next pope will be, spoken with enormous confidence by people in the know, is often ...

Pope Francis chose 149 of the current members of the college, most of whom will help choose his successor as cardinal ...