Members of the Vatican’s child protection body have called on cardinals to make safeguarding a priority as they elect the new ...

For Cardinal Juan García Rodríguez, the pre-conclave gatherings are not about orchestrated strategies or names whispered in ...

Beyond simply picking who the next pope will be, players and gamblers also can guess how many tries it will take the ...

ABC News contributor Father James Martin discusses the characteristics that cardinals might be looking for in the next pope.

Red curtains have been installed at St. Peter's basilica as part of the preparations to elect the next pope. CBS News New ...

Though Francis didn’t make major changes to the conclave, his outreach to what he called “peripheries’’ leaves an imprint ...

ROME (AP) — Rome is bustling with jasmine blooming and tourists swarming. But behind closed doors, these are the days of ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost joins the conclave Wednesday to pick Pope Francis' successor. His rise in the faith began at a South ...

Cleaners and cooks. Doctors and nurses. Even drivers and elevator operators. All the support staff for the cardinals who will ...

The oath, which explicitly forbids recording or disclosing anything from within the conclave, underscores the Church's ...

The Prophecy of Popes, a Latin-based legend, claims there will not be a 113th Pope, causing conspiracy theorists to believe ...

Activists are fighting a church that wants to put the scandal behind it and a public that may be tiring of it.