Papal conclave ballots have been burned to maintain secrecy for centuries. Ballot smoke has been used to announce a decision ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday began the secretive, ...

Catholic cardinals are returning to the Sistine Chapel for a second day of voting to try and elect a new pope.

White smoke is pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, signalling that a pope has been elected to lead the Catholic Church ...

he took over the Vatican office that oversees bishop nominations, was made an archbishop and, last year, a cardinal. But he’d often come back to Chicago and get together with Lego, his old ...

If the Catholic cardinals entering the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis are looking for a steady administrator ...

The election of Pope Leo XIV has set off a frenzy among those seeking info about the new pontiff, and one question has ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday began the secretive, ...

Preparations for the conclave to find a new pope accelerated Friday with the installation of the chimney out of the Sistine ...

Earlier in the day, the dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, presided over a morning Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica urging the voters to set aside all personal interests and ...

The oldest living pontiff, Leo XIII died in 1903 at 93 years old after a 25-year tenure. Pope John XXIII responded to increased secularism by convening the Second Vatican Council in 1962.