"He always kept a low profile. He was a very serious person,” Ana Maria Belmonte tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview ...

Many cardinals cited the desire to continue Francis’ pastoral focus on people who are marginalized and against war.

The papal conclave, the solemn and secretive process in which cardinals convene to elect a successor to Pope Francis, is to ...

At least 68 African migrants were killed and 47 injured in a U.S. airstrike on a Houthi-run detention center in northwestern ...

The Vatican has closed the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather for the conclave to elect the next pope after the ...

With 135 cardinals eligible to vote, the coming conclave is set to be the largest in the history of the Catholic Church and ...

White smoke will soon rise again from the Sistine Chapel chimney, signaling a new era of leadership in the Catholic Church — ...

Travellers to Rome should expect closures, visitor restrictions and crowds at some of the city’s main attractions. View on ...