The date was chief on the agenda of cardinals holding informal meetings Monday to work out church business following the ...

There were 135 cardinals aged under 80 when Francis died and are thereby eligible to take part in the conclave, but it is not ...

Members of the College of Cardinals had a chance to visit the tomb of Pope Francis, who was buried in the Basilica of St.

Pope Francis, who presided over the Roman Catholic Church and its estimated 1.4 billion followers for 12 years, died April 21 ...

By Philip Pullella, Joshua McElwee and Crispian Balmer VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Roman Catholic cardinals will begin their ...

As cardinals meet in Rome ahead of a conclave to elect the next pope, a Peruvian cardinal accused of sexual abuse and whose ...

He who enters the conclave as pope, leaves it as a cardinal.” In other words, any candidate seen as the frontrunner before ...