While an African pope would be a historically stunning development, just one of the drawbacks is that no African cardinal holds a major office in the Vatican.

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves behind the Vatican's medieval walls for the start of a conclave to elect the ...

More than 130 cardinals from all over the world are gathering today for the papal conclave, through which a new head of the ...

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Prevost joined a Catholic religious order at the age of 20: the Order of St. Augustine, called Augustinians, founded in the 13th century. Instead of withdrawing from the ...

On Wednesday morning, 133 cardinals will file into the Sistine Chapel to cast their votes for the next leader of the Catholic church.

The Papal conclave has elected Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new leader of the Catholic Church. Here’s what we know ...

By McKinley Franklin Ahead of the 2025 conclave to find Pope Francis’ successor, Catholic ... novel, Cardinal Thomas Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with leading the College of Cardinals ...

VATICAN CITY — Catholic cardinals ... member church. The cardinals will enter St. Peter’s Basilica for the start of a final pre-conclave Mass. The dean of the College of Cardinals, Giovanni ...

While this conclave began yesterday and ended today, it's not quite the fastest one in history. In 1503, Pope Julius II was ...

Well, it seems as though Edward Berger’s Oscar-winning “ Conclave ” could have been a documentary. Life is imitating art as ...