The OriginsThe word conclave comes from the Latin words cum and clavis, the idea being that the cardinals are kept “under ...

Cardinals who will take part in the secret conclave to elect a new Catholic pope began checking into two Vatican hotels on ...

Pope Leo XIV’s election by the college of cardinals on Thursday surprised millions of Catholics around the world, including ...

Cardinal Daniel DiNardo led the Sioux City diocese as bishop for six years during the early 2000s. The 75-year-old is ...

Church officials announced his death early Monday. Francis was the 266 th pope in the 2,000-year-old Roman Catholic Church, served for 12 years. Now, the papal conclave – the process to elect a ...

VATICAN CITY — White smoke appeared from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on Thursday, May 8 (Rome time), ...

That fence encircles the campo centrale of the Catholic church: the Vatican City tennis court — now under the dominion of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, or rather Pope Leo XIV. After white ...