Cardinals from all over the world are gathering in Rome to elect a new pope. The conclave begins on Wednesday.

Nuns don’t have a vote in the election of a pope. But nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female religious orders gathered in ...

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

Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline of France cooed at babies on Sunday at a church in the Monti neighborhood of Rome. Cardinal Peter ...

As a fireworks expert tests the Vatican's contemporary system for "holy smoke," Catholic cardinals mull their divergent priorities for Pope Francis' successor.

As the Vatican prepares for a conclave to choose a new pope, American Catholics share their hopes and concerns for the Church ...

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

All 133 Catholic cardinals who will vote for a new pope have arrived in Rome, the Vatican said on Monday, two days before ...

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

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

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