Cardinals are high-ranking officials of the Catholic Church whose main duties include advising, governing the Roman Curia, ...

The message that shone through Francis’s provisions for his departure was that the true place of his church was on the ...

Bishop John Dolan gave a sermon on the Sunday after Pope Francis died in which he recalled the church leader's tendency to ...

Pope Francis’s modest tomb drew massive queues on the first day of public viewing in Rome on Sunday, a day after an estimated ...

As tributes and mourners visit the entombment site for Pope Francis a day after his memorial procession, a process to elect a new leader of the Catholic Church begins.

All eyes turn now to the conclave, the secretive meeting of cardinals set to convene within days to elect a new pontiff ...