Tucked away in the unassuming seaside county of Sussex, England—a place better known for tea shops and the occasional inclement gust of wind—sits what may well be one of the most extraordinary things ...

A conclave to choose a new pope normally takes place 15 to 20 days after the death of a pontiff, meaning this conclave should ...

Pope Francis's death comes after a series of health struggles. He held his final public appearance on Easter Sunday.

Pope Francis, a reformer who rattled the Catholic Church's conservatives and inspired some progressives, has died.

With Pope Francis now gone, the College of Cardinals will enter the sealed Sistine Chapel to choose his successor. The field ...

His death ends a historic chapter for the Catholic Church. The first Latin American pope, he opened the doors of his faith to ...

With global tensions running high and world leaders gather en masse to pay their respects, Pope Francis’ funeral is shaping ...

Ahead of the conclave to select the next pope, names circulating include cardinals Bo of Myanmar, Tagle of the Philippines ...

In the hours after his death, it has become commonplace to posit Francis as a “progressive” Pope disavowing the conservatism of his predecessors but in reality he was in line with Catholic social ...

The election of a new Pope begins between 15 to 20 days after the death. The camerlengo, a cardinal in the Catholic Church, ...

Francis’s Traditionis custodes removed the permission given by Benedict and restricted the Latin Mass from being celebrated in parish churches ... visit to the Russian Embassy to the Vatican ...