Cleaners and cooks. Doctors and nurses. Even drivers and elevator operators. The support staff for the cardinals who will ...

NCR analyzed the biographies, background, articles, speeches, homilies and media interviews of members of the College of ...

The Catholic Church will begin the secretive process of choosing a new pope on Wednesday. The cardinals eligible to vote will ...

All mobile phone signal will be deactivated in the Vatican on Wednesday ahead of the highly secretive conclave to elect the ...

Sistine Chapel to elect the next pope. Understanding their makeup in geographic terms can help explain some of their ...

The College of Cardinals held its 11th general congregation at 5 p.m. Rome time on Monday in preparation for the May 7 conclave.

Paparazzi are stalking the corridors of St. Peter's Square, swarming any cardinal bold enough to walk the streets in the days before the conclave.

As the world waits for the papal conclave to get underway, Scott Detrow speaks with Robert Harris, the author who dramatized the process in the book Conclave.

Cardinals who engaged with the media Monday spoke only in the most general terms about the sort of pope they’re looking for. ...

This conclave is significant not only for its size, but also for the opportunity it presents to shape the future of Catholicism. The outcome will have implications for the church's stance on a variety ...