The countdown is on to the start of the Papal Conclave. This week, some 133 Cardinals are convening in secret in Vatican City ...

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

Bishop Joseph Brennan and members of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno landed in Rome on Monday. Marquez spoke with Action News and described a sense of busyness as the College of Cardinals ...

Cleaners and cooks. Doctors and nurses. Even drivers and elevator operators. The support staff for the cardinals who will ...

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

Taking the estimated number of Catholics in a country and dividing them by the number of cardinal-electors gives some idea of ...

Cardinals from around the world are starting to arrive for the Conclave, the election of the new pope, beginning May 7. The ...

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

The Catholic Church reserves the priesthood for men, so only men will choose the leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.

There are currently 135 cardinals who are under age 80 and eligible to vote in the conclave, hailing from 71 different ...

Beyond simply picking who the next pope will be, players and gamblers also can guess how many tries it will take the ...