Cardinal Mario Grech comes from Malta, but is known to cardinals around the world for his role as the secretary general of an advisory body of bishops. By Elisabetta Povoledo Only about half a million ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Every papal conclave comes down, in some sense, to a referendum on the papacy that has just ended," John Allen, a longtime ...

Each day between now and the May 7 conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis, John Allen is offering a profile of a different papabile, the Italian term for a man who could be pope. There’s no ...

The Vatican announced Tuesday that Pope Francis has approved a special Ecclesial Assembly for October 2028 to evaluate how Catholic communities worldwide have implemented the recently concluded Synod ...

Pope Francis' death on Monday, the day after Easter Sunday, started off a series of traditions that in a few weeks will culminate in a vote for the next pope. After Pope Francis is laid to rest, his ...

VATICAN CITY — The purpose of this month’s Synod on Synodality is to determine how to put Pope Francis’ push for greater dialogue, openness and lay participation in Church affairs into action. But the ...

VATICAN CITY - Predict who the next pope will be at your peril. An old Italian saying warns against putting faith, or money, in any presumed front-runner ahead of the conclave, the closed-door ...

Fifteen to 20 days after the death of Pope Francis, cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church will shut the doors of the Sistine Chapel to pick his successor. It is set to be the largest conclave in the ...

Update: American Cardinal Robert Prevost has been chosen as the new pope and took the name Leo XIV — the first pope in history from the United States. Pope Francis' death on April 21, the day after he ...

Pope Francis’ death on Monday, the day after Easter Sunday, started off a series of traditions that in a few weeks will culminate in a vote for the next pope. After Pope Francis is laid to rest, his ...