At Sunday mass in a parish next to Rome’s most notorious public housing complex and in one of the city’s most historic ...

At private dinners and at formal gatherings of cardinals, talk among church leaders of who will next lead the church has ...

That includes Timothy Cardinal Dolan. CBS News New York's Mary Calvi caught up with New York's archbishop near the Vatican on ...

A cardinal (from the Latin "cardinalis" or principal) is a high dignitary of the Catholic Church chosen by the pope to assist ...

This year is already one of the busiest for tourists in Rome, but as the city mourns Pope Francis’ passing and prepares for a ...

Two cardinals, Michael Czerny and Chibly Langlois, sat down with ABC News to discuss the challenges facing the church that ...

Right now, everything is secret,’ Madagascar Cardinal Désiré Tsarahazana said. ‘It’s the moment for prayers right now.’ ...

The secret vote that elected Pope Gregory X lasted from November 1268 to September 1271. It was the first example of a papal ...

It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that ended the longest papal election in the ...

Luis Antonio Tagle, Jose Advincula of the Archbishop of Manila, and Pablo Virgilio David of Kalookan -- who will participate ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS)—All but four of the 135 cardinals who are eligible to enter the conclave May 7 to vote for a new pope had ...

Cardinal Péter Erdő and Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline celebrated Masses in Rome on Sunday, days before attending the conclave that will elect the successor of Pope Francis.