The announcement “Habemus Papam” — “We have a pope” — from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica is followed first by the ...

Papal conclave will begin on Wednesday, May 7. Among the top candidates is Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of the Philippines.

A tense papal election is expected to pit late Pope Francis’ number two, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, against an array of ...

Two of the 10 U.S. cardinals participating in the conclave to elect a new pope are from the tristate area: Cardinal Timothy ...

Boston Archbishop Richard Henning celebrated a mass in Braintree on Tuesday, to ask the Holy Spirit to guide the Cardinals as ...

There is a famous quote attributed to then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1997, in comments to a Bavarian television station.

More than 60 service members were injured as a part of former President Joe Biden's floating aid pier in Gaza, a Pentagon ...

The conclave to elect the next pope is opening soon. A new CBS News poll indicates most U.S. Catholics would like to see ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In the days leading up to the conclave, as cardinals have met in the general congregations to discuss ...

Roman Catholic cardinals will begin the task on Wednesday of electing a new pope, locking themselves away from the world ...

Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston says he wants the new pope to be "a man of unity for the ...