Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín, who welcomed the decision to fly flags at half-mast over public buildings, said there should be ...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, provides an inside look into what goes on during conclave in the Catholic ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — If the next pope is from sub-Saharan Africa, he would be the first in Catholic Church history.

With no official campaigning or list of candidates and the election process shrouded in secrecy, speculation about who will ...

The last official day of mourning for Pope Francis wrapped up in the Vatican Sunday, and a papal conclave will begin on ...

It’s been almost a half a century since questions could be shut down with the verity: “Is the Pope Italian?” In that time, ...

Cardinals hailing from 71 different countries will begin electing a pope this week in the most geographically diverse conclave in history ...

“I believe the Holy Spirit always intervenes in the choosing of the next pope,” the Rev. Halmar Adolis Calix, a priest from ...

But papal betting has a long history. Roman banking houses were taking bets as far back as 1503. Alessandro Damasceni Peretti ...

The world won’t know the next leader of the world’s Catholics until he appears before a throng of supporters in St. Peter’s ...

The papal conclave in the modern era has resulted in a number of progressive popes playing various roles in shaping political ...

Chicago Catholics gathered at an Easter Monday Mass in Pilsen to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ and mourn the ...