Cardinals due to elect the next leader of the Church at a gathering set to start on 7 May.

While any baptized Roman Catholic male is eligible, only cardinals have been selected as pope since 1378. The winner must receive at least two-thirds of the votes from those cardinals who are under ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday jokingly said he’d like to be the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church, days after Pope ...

Known by his peers as a serious theologian, scholar and educator, Erdő, 72, is a leading contender among conservatives. He ...

All Roman Catholics are Christians, but not the other way around, differing in beliefs about the sacraments, the pope, the ...

The group End Clergy Abuse issued an open letter Wednesday to the cardinals who are meeting informally this week before the ...

Trump joked he would like to be next pope days after Francis dies. Sen. Lindsey Graham thought it was funny and exciting. But POTUS isn't a Catholic.

Matteo Bruni, director of the Holy See Press Office, had stated at an April 29 press briefing that two cardinal electors ...

As the conclave approaches, the cardinals have emphasized that this is a time of grace and discernment for the Church.

Survivors of clerical abuse, experts in child protection and victim advocacy groups have collectively decried the presence of ...

While there are those who want to back away from Francis' outreach there is one unalterable fact: When the world's Catholic ...