Roman Catholic cardinals will begin the task of electing a new pope, locking themselves away from the world until they choose ...

Roman Catholic cardinals have begun the task of electing a new pope, locking themselves away from the world until they choose ...

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Black smoke billowed from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel on Thursday (May 8), signalling that the cardinals locked in a ...

An Italian cardinal who was convicted of embezzlement and fraud said on Tuesday he would not take part in the conclave to ...

Despite being the “princes” of the church, the cardinals are not exempt from excommunication if they violate the rules of the ...

Cardinals rank just below the pope, and those who belong to the powerful College of Cardinals are tasked with electing a new ...

Sweden's first cardinal, Anders Arborelius, is a convert to Catholicism in the overwhelmingly Protestant Scandinavian country ...

Following the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday, cardinals are meeting for a second day to elect his successor. The ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S.

"I asked him why he took this name," Filoni said. "He's an Augustinian. ... He told me, 'In this moment, we need a man with a ...

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, was elected and accepted his fate as the next Bishop of Rome, leader of the world's ...