As the cardinals of the Catholic Church prepare to meet in the Conclave electing a successor to Pope Francis, various issues ...

VATICAN CITY — Cardinals wrapped up their pre-conclave meetings Tuesday, trying to identify a possible new pope who could ...

Although estranged from his own religious order for more than two decades, Pope Francis reconciled immediately after his ...

Contenders for pope emerge from the U.S., Asia, and Africa—raising the chance of a non-European successor to Francis.

NCR analyzed the biographies, background, articles, speeches, homilies and media interviews of members of the College of ...

The secret election appears wide open but here are some of the names, in alphabetical order, being talked about as possible ...

What the world’s Indigenous Catholics don’t want to lose with the death of the first pontiff from the Southern Hemisphere: ...

Cardinals will gather on 7 May in a conclave in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel to elect a new pope. Here is a brief glossary of ...

The 133 cardinal electors will begin the process of choosing the new pope when the conclave begins in the Sistine Chapel on ...

The Post chose to frame its recent article about the preparations for the conclave to select the next pope in political terms ...

USA TODAY will stream coverage of the conclave on its YouTube channel, available here or at the embed below. The first day's ...