Cardinal Michael Czerny said that when Cardinal Robert F. Prevost was elected pope and chose the name Leo XIV, ...

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves Wednesday behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to ...

Cardinals are meeting in Vatican City to choose a new leader for the Catholic Church. This follows the death of Pope Francis. The cardinals will participate in a conclave. They will vote for a ...

Leo XIV said he was an Augustinian priest, but added that he was above all a Christian, and a bishop. "So we can all walk ...

The College of Cardinals elected a new pope Thursday, the first from America in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday begin the secretive, centuries-old ritual to elect a successor to Pope Francis, opening the ...

Cardinal Baltazar Porras Cardozo of Merida, Venezuela, arrives to attend a general congregation meeting of the College of ...

No one knows how long it will take to elect the next Pope, but it's predicted to be at least a two or three-day wait.

The group observed that of the four Cardinals so far produced by the Catholic Church in Nigeria, three have retired and reached over 80 years of age, including Francis Cardinal Arinze (92 ...

A human rights group, the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety), has made a strong case for an additional serving Cardinal for the Catholic Church in Nigeria to ...

"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 ...