The cardinals met Tuesday in the Vatican’s synod hall to chart the next steps before a conclave begins to choose Francis’ successor, as condolences poured in from around the world. According to ...

Pope Francis' funeral will take place on April 26 in St. Peter’s Square following his death at age 88, with Cardinal Giovanni ...

"At 7:35 this morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the house of the Father," the Vatican announced on Monday.

Cardinals this morning held their first of what will be many daily meetings, cloistered away from the Vatican crowds as they ...

A change in popes—through death or resignation—is a complicated process, with centuries-old rituals involving the transition in leadership for both the spiritual head of the global Catholic Church and ...

The cardinals met Tuesday in the Vatican's synod hall to chart the next steps before a conclave begins to choose Francis' ...

Pope Francis died of a stroke on Monday at the Vatican aged 88. His funeral is to be held later this week in the presence of ...

Cardinal Kevin Farrell remembers the day Pope Francis asked him to be the camerlengo, the Vatican official who runs the Holy See after the death of one pope and before the election of another. They ...

As tradition dictates, the late pontiff’s signet ring will be destroyed — or defaced, at least — within the walls of the ...

A popular saying in Vatican circles is that if you “enter a conclave as pope, you leave as a cardinal.” It implies the sacred and secretive process is no popularity contest or campaign, but rather the ...

The process through which a new pope is chosen is known as a conclave, a term after which Robert Harris' 2016 book-turned-movie is named.

Cardinals are meeting at the Vatican to make the first decisions about running the Catholic Church following the death of ...