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

With nudges and winks, governments are trying to influence who becomes the next pope. Whether they’ll succeed is up to 133 ...

The announcement “Habemus Papam” — “We have a pope” — from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica is followed first by the ...

Not without some last-minute and apparently inconsequential drama, 133 cardinals will this afternoon file into the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican to elect the 267th Pope. Ten days after the death of ...

They don’t have a vote in the pope’s election, but nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female Catholic orders met in Rome on ...

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

Nuns don't have a vote in the election of a pope. But nearly 900 superiors of the world's female Catholic orders gathered in ...

There is a famous quote attributed to then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1997, in comments to a Bavarian television station.

More than a billion Catholics from around the world await the decision of 133 cardinals who will on Wednesday begin the process of electing the next head of the Catholic church inside Rome’s Sistine ...

Burke, who was Archbishop of St. Louis, was called to Rome by the then Pope, Benedict XVI, himself a hardliner. The American ...

They don’t have a vote in the pope’s election, but nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female Catholic orders met in Rome on ...

In total, 133 cardinals will be voting during this conclave, the most electors ever, with 108 of them being appointed by Pope ...