There could be some high-profile athletes joining the crowds in St. Peter’s Square over the coming days to keep track of the ...

When Pope Francis took over the Vatican’s leadership in 2013, the church was marred by an unsettled sex abuse crisis that ...

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In total, 133 cardinals will be voting during this conclave, the most electors ever, with 108 of them being appointed by Pope ...

The two are passing through Rome on vacation and will continue to southern Italy. But they are practicing Catholics and were ...

Roman Catholic cardinals from around the world will be locked inside the Sistine Chapel as the conclave - the storied process ...

At private dinners and at formal gatherings of cardinals, talk among church leaders of who will next lead the church has ...

Only cardinals under the age of 80, who are male and Catholic, are allowed to vote in the election of the new pontiff.

With no official campaigning or list of candidates and the election process shrouded in secrecy, speculation about who will ...

FOX 29 Anchor Jason Martinez is in Rome ready to bring the latest, live coverage of the Papal Conclave.

There is a famous quote attributed to then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1997, in comments to a Bavarian television station.