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

Red-hatted cardinals were expected to pick a date Monday for the conclave to elect a new leader of the world's 1.4 billion ...

The six-kilometer funeral procession that carried Pope Francis from St. Peter's to St. Mary Major was filled with profound ...

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

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

When the prohibition regarding the Divine Mercy message was lifted by Pope St. Paul VI, Sister Faustina Kowalska of the ...

Pope Francis's funeral drew global leaders, but Donald Trump's attendance sparked controversy. He deviated from the dress ...

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