The College of Cardinals will meet beginning Wednesday, May 7, 2025, to vote in a papal conclave -- a secret ballot where two ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls ...

The Swiss Guard, the pope’s iconic bodyguards, look ceremonial but in the pageantry of the Renaissance-style uniform lies the ...

While the next pope is almost certainly well-known already in Vatican City, the rest of the world should prepare to be ...

This, then — love it or leave it — is what popes are for, according to the Catechism: keeping the bishops in step, keeping ...

While there has been much speculation as to the frontrunners, one expert described this conclave as “totally unpredictable” ...

Of all the ceremonies associated with electing a new pope, the one most familiar to the general public is the smoke that emanates from a stovepipe chi ...

Speaking to JI, prominent Italian journalist Maurizio Molinari laments ‘wave of dehumanization of Jews’ in Italy and implores Trump to see Israel’s war against Hamas and Ukraine’s against Russia as th ...

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 ...

The ritual from which the new Pope will emerge is as fascinating as it is unpredictable. The sky of Rome once again becomes a ...

Following a special mass in St Peter’s Basilica, the group will go into the Sistine Chapel where they will have no contact ...

Ross Douthat, a Times Opinion columnist, hosted an online conversation with Michael Brendan Dougherty, a senior writer at ...