The cardinals preparing to elect a new pope must strengthen communion in the Catholic Church, promoting a form of unity that has nothing to do with uniformity and everything to d ...

The abbot of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome was invited by cardinals to offer spiritual meditation ahead of conclave ...

Black smoke was pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave ...

"Reporting Reflections" is a series of pieces written by students in Diana Keough’s Reporting III class. Over the course of ...

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves Wednesday behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to ...

With a Vatican official calling out “extra omnes” and the door to the Sistine Chapel shutting, the conclave to elect Pope ...

Live updates and latest news as the first North American pope steps into his role as the new leader of the Catholic Church.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke was pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of ... is the perfect aperitivo activity.

These activities ... Communion to a sick peasant. He irreverently placed the consecrated Host in his breviary rather than a pyx; and when he arrived at the man’s home, he discovered the pages ...

Leo is the first pope to have been born in the United ... “His words advocating peace, unity, and missionary activity already indicate a path forward,” Broglio said. Before Leo's election ...

Latest news and live updates as the election process for the next pope continues. The cardinals met for their first conclave ...