Francis was elected as the 266th pope in March 2013, and his death now prompts the centuries-old tradition of choosing his ...

Fluent in Spanish, Italian, French and Portuguese, Tobin was appointed cardinal by Pope Francis in 2016, which at the time ...

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The Italian cardinal at the heart of the Vatican’s “trial of the century” is withdrawing from participating in the upcoming ...

The 135 cardinals eligible to elect the next pope will enter the Sistine Chapel to begin the conclave May 7, the Vatican announced.The cardinals will first celebrate the "Mass for the Election of the ...

ANALYSIS: While the de-Christianized Old Continent seems to be becoming irrelevant in view of the ongoing shift of Church leadership to the Southern Hemisphere, its cardinals will nonetheless maintain ...

Whoever succeeds Pope Francis will inherit his momentous and controversial legacy of relations with Indigenous people ...

TORONTO (AP) — The Liberal Party has won the federal election in Canada, culminating a process marked by U.S. President ...

An Italian cardinal who was convicted of embezzlement and fraud said on April 29 he will not take part in the secret conclave ...

Canon law does not give much specific direction about who can make decisions for the church during the interregnum.

Cardinal Angelo Becciu, once a powerful Vatican official, has formally withdrawn from participating in the conclave to elect a new pope.

Cardinals have no contact with the outside world after the master of liturgical ceremonies utters the words “Extra Omnes” the ...