Hype has been building on social media around the Catholic Church's secretive, centuries-old tradition of conclaves to elect ...

"And so it is what is, I guess, but it's very unfortunate," said Milwaukee Archbishop Jeffrey S. Grob. "It's a very serious ...

There is no rule that cardinals electing a new pope vote a certain way according to their nationality or region. But ...

If Tagle were elected, it would also likely signal to the world's 1.4 billion Catholics that the cardinals want to go forward ...