The cardinals of the Catholic Church held their ninth in a series of near-daily meetings at the Vatican on Saturday ahead of ...

Besides its masterpieces by Michelangelo, the Sistine Chapel is undergoing a makeover, involving the installation of a stove ...

"We so often feel like masters of God, perfect knowers of the truth, while we are only pilgrims to whom the Word has been ...

Thailand's health ministry urged calm on May 2 after the kingdom reported its first anthrax death in more than three decades, ...

That discernment "is the process of the conclave," he said. "And that's very much where the prayer and the influence of the ...

Pakistan-administered Kashmir called on residents near the de facto border with India to stockpile food on May 2 as tensions ...

US President Donald Trump posted on April 2 a spoof picture of himself dressed as the pope on his Truth Social platform after ...

"If Cardinal Parolin becomes pope, we will have a consummate secret-keeper running the Catholic Church and I think any hope ...

Property and gardens were destroyed in a forest fire that began on April 30 and burned almost 5,000 acres of land ...

All but four of the 133 cardinals who are eligible to enter the conclave on May 7 to vote for a new pope had arrived in Rome ...

President Donald Trump began what the White House cast as a week-long celebration of his first 100 days with an executive ...

Many cardinals have expressed hope for a short conclave, closer to the two days needed to elect both Francis and his ...