A German cardinal has warned that the Catholic Church faces a split if it fails to replace the late Pope Francis with an ...

The conclave is a time-honored process conducted in secrecy behind the locked doors of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.

The Vatican is closing the Sistine Chapel to the public as part of its preparations for the the conclave to elect the next ...

The process of picking a new pope is filled with ancient rituals like a secret ballot and locked doors. See a visual guide to conclave.

Pope Francis died at age 88 on April 21, setting off a series of centuries-old rituals to select a new leader of the Catholic ...

One of Pope Francis’ enduring legacies was that he greatly expanded the diversity of cardinals who will elect his successor, ...

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

Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb of Pope Francis on Sunday, filing past the simple white tomb in St. Mary ...

Cardinals attend Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica, before they enter the conclave to decide who the next pope will be, on March ...

Hundreds of thousands gathered in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, a day after Pope Francis' funeral, for another ceremony to ...

The church is divided. The problem is to find the one who unites, not pretend that it isn’t divided,” one church historian ...