It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that ended the longest papal election in the ...

Infighting, smear campaigns, papal letters from beyond the grave: The conclave to elect a new pope is giving the film a run ...

In today’s world, with new technologies mixed with social media, one could excuse a 19-year-old trying to get a laugh on the ...

As the conclave to pick the successor to Pope Francis gets underway on Wednesday May 7, the world will be on the lookout for ...

President Donald Trump’s latest social media stunt – an AI-generated image of himself dressed as the pope – sparked immediate ...

After every round of voting during a conclave, the ballots are burned with chemicals in a process that enables the cardinals ...

At private dinners and at formal gatherings of cardinals, talk among church leaders of who will next lead the church has ...

Fans of the Oscar-nominated movie “Conclave,” which is about a papal election, might think they have a head start on what’s ...

From cash bets on websites to online games and casual wagers among friends, experts and participants say the popularity of ...

Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini is taking to his first conclave the same spirit that guided his decades-long front-line ministry ...

Lisa Lim decodes the Latin terms that will pepper the coming conclave of cardinals in Vatican City to elect a successor to ...

Over 12 years as pope, Francis tried to remake the U.S. Catholic hierarchy more in his image, elevating pastors who ...