Following the death of Pope Francis, the conclave of cardinals that gathered at the Vatican wasted little time choosing a new ...

The Pope’s political program is neither left-wing nor right-wing, but Catholic. His ambivalent relationship with the Trump ...

Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become ...

The secret vote that elected Pope Gregory X lasted from November 1268 ... The most prominent antipopes during the Western Schism were Clement VII, Benedict XIII, Alexander V, and John XXIII.

When a new pope is elected, one of his first decisions is to choose a regnal name — a symbolic gesture that reveals spiritual ...