Time is running out and there are still many cardinals registered to speak at the pre-conclave meetings called general ...

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

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

At a recent service in the remote southern Mexican community of Simojovel, Catholic and Mayan symbolism mingled at the altar as the deacon — his wife beside him — read the gospel in his native Tsotsil ...

The secret ballot for a successor hasn’t begun. But among church leaders, talk about who will next lead the 2,000-year-old ...

The image is raising eyebrows on social media, at the Vatican, from a group representing Catholic bishops in New York and from Italians.