A new pope will be selected to lead the Catholic Church following the death of Pope Francis. The pope is chosen during a ...

Few could have predicted that a comment Pope Francis made during a 2018 visit to Chile would blow up into the biggest crisis ...

Pope Francis, in his pontificate, made significant strides in appointing women to Vatican leadership roles. Despite ...

His critics were fellow clergy as well as elected officials in the ascendant wing of the American Catholic political realm.

Pope Francis didn’t affirm same-sex marriage or lobby for ordaining women as priests. But he gently steered the Catholic ...

There are always front-runners, known as “papabile,” who have at least some of the qualities considered necessary to be pope.

A few months before he died on Monday, Pope Francis entered what turned out to be his last high-profile skirmish ... resistance rose in the American church hierarchy, in Washington and in the ...

It implies the sacred and secretive process is no popularity contest or campaign, but rather the divinely inspired election of Christ’s vicar on Earth by the princes of the church. Still ...

Francis’ death came the morning after he made a high ... hierarchy and power plays, Bergoglio evidently earned the respect of his fellow senior prelates, the red-hatted “princes of the church.” ...