Far from the Sistine Chapel where cloistered cardinals will cast votes, people are placing bets on who will be chosen as the ...

Few, if any, Latin Americans show up on the speculative lists of who might be elected as the supreme pontiff, or “papabile.” ...

Casa Santa Marta is abuzz with workers, engineers, and Vatican officials transforming the guesthouse that was the residence ...

I never knew how much I wanted to go to Rome until I got there.

Catholics can (and do!) debate whether Pope Francis was an effective evangelizer. But we can say for sure that he followed ...

Pope Francis was not afraid of messiness. That seems to have been part and parcel of his pastoral freedom, charging into ...

I wish I did not have to vote because I wish that Francis were still alive. But it is a fact that he has left us,” Cardinal ...

Francis always encouraged me in our attempt to move forward as an ecumenical community and in welcoming young people from ...

The cardinals have asked Catholics to pray for them and the conclave. What exactly should we be praying for? And should we be ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS)—All but four of the 135 cardinals who are eligible to enter the conclave May 7 to vote for a new pope had ...

The Gospel readings of this week’s daily liturgies remind us that the Eucharist is a participation in the resurrection of ...

Over the past twenty-two years of my life, having attended Mass almost every week, I have surely heard the phrase “The ...