Among the regular pilgrims, tourists and assorted onlookers were groups of nuns. There are around 600,000 Catholic nuns around the world, and they dedicate their lives to a variety of religious services, like charitable work, living in seclusion in monasteries and focusing on prayer.

An Omaha native now reports in the Holy See. She's been in Rome since 2016 and has had the opportunity to cover the recent conclave.

What will Pope Leo XIV do? Will he continue the policies of Pope Francis or take the Catholic church in another direction?

All eyes are on Vatican City Tuesday with just over a day to go until the start of the papal conclave to elect the 267th pope.

On the morning of May 7 the conclave will commence, with all the cardinals present, with the Holy Mass for the Election of the Roman Pontiff in St. Peter’s Basilica.

Since the death of Pope Francis on April 21, interest has surged in the Oscar-winning film "Conclave" and its source novel, which dramatizes the intrigue behind the election of a new pope. "Sunday Morning" talks with author Robert Harris and actor Ralph Fiennes.

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to elect the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, a successor to Pope Francis who di

Catholics in Charleston joined the world as they watched the first American pope was elected in the Vatican City on Thursday.Randall Hoffman who is a parishion