The Vatican announced this week that its College of Cardinals will convene on May 7 for the conclave process at the famed Sistine Chapel – where they'll elect Pope Francis' successor as leader of the ...

Pope Francis, the charismatic and conciliatory Argentine who moved to liberalize the Catholic Church, dramatically reorienting the papacy’s posture toward homosexuality and modestly expanding the role ...

The death of Pope Francis, after a very public diminishment, closes a signal chapter in Catholic history with absolutely no certainty about who or what comes next. Rather than reflexively corralling ...

Roman Catholic cardinals from across the globe entered the Sistine Chapel to choose a new pope, who will set the moral compass for the Church’s 1.4 billion faithful and become a reference point for ...