The Swiss Guard, the pope’s iconic bodyguards, look ceremonial but in the pageantry of the Renaissance-style uniform lies the ...

The College of Cardinals will meet beginning Wednesday, May 7, 2025, to vote in a papal conclave -- a secret ballot where two ...

Before the closed-door conclave to elect Pope Francis' successor, Catholic cardinals have gathered in the Vatican for a final ...

With the conclave to elect the new pope beginning in Vatican City on Wednesday, following the death of Francis I on 21 April, ...

The Papal Conclave becomes a magnet for tourists to visit the Vatican, even though the process of electing a new Pope to ...

Disinformation circulating online has been sowing confusion as the secretive conclave to elect the next pope kicks off in the ...

Cardinals have entered St. Peter's Basilica to celebrate the final Mass before the conclave to elect a new pope. The dean of ...

While the next pope is almost certainly well-known already in Vatican City, the rest of the world should prepare to be ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday began the ...

This, then — love it or leave it — is what popes are for, according to the Catechism: keeping the bishops in step, keeping ...