He always smiled at me; he seemed more like a brother than a pope,’ he recalls of Francis while working on his successor’s ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls ...

TOPSHOT - Argentina's Jorge Bergoglio, elected Pope Francis I (C) waves from the window of St Peter's Basilica's balcony after being elected the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church on March 13, ...

They don’t have a vote in the pope’s election, but nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female Catholic orders met in Rome on ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In the days leading up to the conclave, as cardinals have met in the general congregations to discuss ...

They don’t have a vote in the pope’s election, but nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female Catholic orders met in Rome on ...

The largest and most geographically diverse papal conclave in history is set to commence May 7 in Rome, where cardinals will ...

The same people who questioned Jorge Bergoglio when he became Pope today celebrate him as “the most important Argentine in ...

Is there really a U.S. delegation of cardinals, a team that would wear the same jersey? Do these players feel like teammates?

Alberto Chinchilla was the architect of the papacy's communicative shift. With Benedict XVI, he experienced the transition to the digital world, and with Francis, he designed global faith campaigns ...

Gibson, of Fordham, said another factor that might throw off the traditional resistance to an American pope is the election ...