Cardinal Angelo Becciu, once a powerful Vatican official, has formally withdrawn from participating in the conclave to elect a new pope. The Vatican’s criminal court convicted Becciu in 2023 of ...

The Italian cardinal at the heart of the Vatican’s “trial of the century” announced Tuesday he was withdrawing from ...

New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan is among 10 Americans eligible to vote in next week’s Vatican conclave to elect the next pope — but don’t expect white smoke for the red, white, and blue contingent.

President Donald Trump joked that he would “like to be pope” when asked who would succeed the late Pope Francis, clarifying ...

After a reporter asked Trump who he thought should follow Pope Francis as the next pope, the non-Catholic president offered a ...

Archbishop Etienne of the Archdiocese of Seattle led a special Requiem Mass at St. James to honor the pontiff. After the service, he told KOMO News that there are a number of Pope Francis' priorities ...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday joked about his next job on Tuesday as he celebrated his 100th day as President of the ...

An Italian cardinal who was convicted of embezzlement and fraud said Tuesday he would not take part in the secret conclave to ...

The cardinal from Papua New Guinea says the Church needs a holy and unifying pope to guide the Church and inspire renewed ...

Whoever succeeds Pope Francis will inherit his momentous and controversial legacy of relations with Indigenous people ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A conclave is the centuries-old election of a pope that derives its name from the Italian “con clave” (with a key) to underscore that cardinals are sequestered until they find a ...

Ahead of the papal conclave, which starts on May 7 to select the next head of the Roman Catholic Church, Cardinal of Baghdad ...