All 135 cardinals who are under the age of 80 and have not renounced the right to enter the conclave will have full voting ...

Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu's decision to withdraw from the upcoming conclave to elect a successor to the late Pope ...

Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) jokingly asked the conclave to “keep an open mind” about making President Trump the next pope. “I was ...

The developments come amid real questions about how prominent the abuse scandal is featuring in the discussions about finding ...

A coalition of survivors of clergy sexual abuse are demanding that cardinals entering the conclave will pick a pope who will ...

A week before the conclave to choose a new pope opens, preparatory talks intensified Wednesday as cardinals sounded out ...

With betting on the next pope frowned upon in the home of the Vatican, thousands of Italians have instead taken to playing ...

According to Marco Politi, the cardinals will be looking for a new head of the church, who would be well versed in the mechanisms of the curia, more in line with the profile of a manager, representati ...

Ahead of the May 7 start of the papal conclave, the Pontifical Missions Societies USA is inviting faithful to pray – not only for the assembly as a whole, but for a specific cardinal elector who will ...

Catholic cardinals on Monday set May 7 as the start date for the conclave to elect Pope Francis' successor, delaying the ...

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday joked that he would like to succeed Pope Francis, who died last week at the age of 88.

Of the 135 electors, more than 100, or nearly three-quarters, of the members of the college were appointed by Pope Francis, ...