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

The conclave to select the next pope has begun after Catholic cardinals from across the world filed into the Sistine Chapel ...

Cardinals, who have the title of "eminence", are second only to the pope in the Church's hierarchy and can officiate in all churches outside Rome. They may also be buried in churches. The Second ...

Cardinal Mario Grech comes from Malta, but is known to cardinals around the world for his role as the secretary general of an ...

He said the church “understood well . . . and also assumed the risks” of such involvement. The confession, if truthful confirms long-held suspicions that Argentina’s Catholic hierarchy ...

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 ...

But once he took charge at the Vatican, succeeding two socially conservative popes who had led the church for more than three decades combined, he quickly stunned the hierarchy, and the world ...