VATICAN CITY (CNS)—All but four of the 135 cardinals who are eligible to enter the conclave May 7 to vote for a new pope had ...

Preparations for the conclave to find a new pope accelerated Friday with the installation of the chimney out of the Sistine ...

The conclave that begins next Wednesday to elect a successor for Pope Francis is the first in 46 ½ years for which the ...

Welcome to America magazine’s Conclave Podcast. Our editors are on the ground in Rome covering the conclave to elect the next ...

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs,”is a brilliant, pithy summation of communist philosophy ...

In a pre-conclave meeting, an Italian cardinal, and backer of Cardinal Parolin as next pope, attacked Pope Francis for ...

As we prepare for a new papacy, an important question faces the church: What foundations do we inherit from Pope Francis’ ...

“I believe the Holy Spirit always intervenes in the choosing of the next pope,” the Rev. Halmar Adolis Calix, a priest from ...

Since the death of Pope Francis, lists of his possible successors have proliferated on social media and in newspapers. Should ...

But the blues is a gateway to transcendence as well as temptation, the soul-deep cry of a people in exile, capable of ...

Much of what you hear about who the next pope will be, spoken with enormous confidence by people in the know, is often ...

Pope Francis’s recent death invites reflection on the office of Peter’s successor. This Sunday’s readings, meanwhile, are ...