The cardinals eligible to vote for the new pope will gather in the coming weeks and enter seclusion to secretly vote for the new bishop of Rome.

When the newly elected Pope Francis stepped onto the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica in 2013 to greet the crowd, he joked that ...

The conclave is a time-honored process conducted in secrecy behind the locked doors of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.

As the Oscar-nominated film "Conclave" made clear, the election of a pope is a Hollywood-worthy drama steeped in mystery, ...

The release came Sunday morning, as the tomb opened for public viewing. All the cardinals in Rome, including the ones ...

Cardinals this week will start in-depth discussions on planning the conclave to choose Pope Francis' successor.

The Pope's funeral has set off nine days of official Vatican mourning for the pontiff, who took over following the ...

Francis, who shunned much of the pomp and privilege of the papacy, asked to be buried at Santa Maria Maggiore - rather than ...

Drinking fluoridated water from birth through about age 13, makes teeth permanently strong and decay-resistant. Much like ...

Wars and rumors of wars, especially in the Middle East. Rising political tensions plaguing the Western Hemisphere as the ...

BBC - Images of Pope Francis' tomb at the Santa Maria Maggiore church in Rome have been released. A single, white rose was pictured lying on the stone tomb that bears the name he was known by during ...