Vatican post offices and selected collectors’ shops started selling this week special stamps marking the period between Pope ...

The “foreign policy” of a pope is not his primary mission, but it remains important. The late Holy Father made foreign policy ...

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

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

The appeal came as the cardinals concluded their seventh general congregation — the daily meetings leading up to the start of ...

Cardinals attend a Mass presided over by Cardinal Pietro Parolin in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, on the second of nine ...

In a pre-conclave meeting, an Italian cardinal, and backer of Cardinal Parolin as next pope, attacked Pope Francis for ...

All 135 cardinals who are under the age of 80 and have not renounced the right to enter the conclave will have full voting ...

The story of the Rev. Hilarion Alfeyev captures how a once robust effort to bring Russian Orthodox Christianity and the ...

I expect it won’t go as quickly as the last conclave. But maybe I’ll be proven wrong. I would be happy about that,” said ...

Of the 135 electors, more than 100, or nearly three-quarters, of the members of the college were appointed by Pope Francis, ...

The prayer book is the "Ordo Rituum Conclavis" ("Rites of the Conclave"), which was approved by St. John Paul II in 1998, but ...