Inverted crosses visible as Pope Francis lay in state symbolise Saint Peter, the first pontiff, and are not a reference to ...

Workers and clerics assisting the dozens of Catholic cardinals set to gather Wednesday to begin voting on the next pope had ...

An AI-generated image of President Donald Trump dressed as the pope is drawing criticism from some Catholics after it was ...

The Catholic Church is an institution of remarkable longevity. The year marks the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of ...

For the first time, the majority of cardinals to choose a pope are not from Europe, as Catholic demographics shift. But ...

Will cardinals continue Pope Francis' progressive ways or will they turn back the clock in favor of traditionalists?

Trump, who frequently shares memes of himself on social media, posted the image to Truth Social on Friday after joking that ...

ROME -- They don’t have a vote in the pope’s election, but nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female Catholic orders met in Rome on Monday to chart a course forward, a few miles from where cardinals ...

As cardinals prepare for the largest papal conclave in history, battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the church ...

Shrouded in secrecy — that’s perhaps the most fitting description of the conclave that elects the next leader of the global ...

More than 400 students at Saint Joseph Catholic School in Fayetteville are taking part in a mock conclave, with voting having ...

The only certainty surrounding the election of the new pope is that he will be a man, and that's a tradition unlikely to ...