Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become ...

The Catholic Church's cardinal electors are set to choose a successor to Pope Francis, as the 2025 papal conclave begins.

Catholic cardinals are gathering at the Vatican to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21. Voting will ...

The cardinals at the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City vow to follow the rules of the conclave, the process by which the next ...

On Wednesday afternoon, red-hatted clerics who carry the same weight and dignity as princes within the Catholic Church ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday begin the secretive, ...

The conclave began exactly 16 days after the death of 88-year-old Pope Francis, who led the world's 1.4 billion Catholics for ...

Two cardinals, Michael Czerny and Chibly Langlois, sat down with ABC News to discuss the challenges facing the church that ...

The next leader of the Catholic Church is unlikely to be either a progressive reformer or a hardline conservative.

Papal Conclave, to elect a new pope, will soon begin in the Vatican, as cardinals vote to choose the successor to late Pope ...

Roughly a week after Donald Trump started his second term as president, the U.S. military issued an order to three freight ...