As a fireworks expert tests the Vatican's contemporary system for "holy smoke," Catholic cardinals mull their divergent ...

All mobile phone signal will be deactivated in the Vatican on Wednesday ahead of the highly secretive conclave to elect the ...

Workers and clerics assisting the dozens of Catholic cardinals set to gather Wednesday to begin voting on the next pope had ...

All Vatican personnel involved in supporting the upcoming papal conclave will take an oath of secrecy — under penalty of ...

As the voting to choose the next pope gets underway, serious questions loom about Europe’s future influence on the Church.

For the first time, the majority of cardinals to choose a pope are not from Europe, as Catholic demographics shift. But ...

We may be stuck with labels drawn from the political world. But the cardinals who enter the conclave tomorrow need to select ...

ROME — They don’t have a vote in the election of a pope, but nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female religious orders ...

The College of Cardinals held its 11th general congregation at 5 p.m. Rome time on Monday in preparation for the May 7 conclave.

Cardinals hailing from 71 different countries are eligible to elect a pope this week in the most geographically diverse ...