Augustinian Cardinal Robert Prevost was the least American among the American cardinals, having spent most of his ministry as ...

The new pontiff is former Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, a Chicago-born Augustinian friar who previously headed the influential ...

The world will learn the name of the new pope when he appears on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica in about an hour.

Everything outside the Sistine Chapel is, now, pure conjecture and everything inside is up to the cardinals and the Holy ...

The display acts as a tribute and also a signal that the Catholic Church, and the culture and businesses that surround it, ...

"You have to trust the process … you don't want them to rush it," said Elizabeth Whelan of Newfoundland, Canada.

Francis died April 21 at age 88. He was elected March 13, 2013, after five votes in a two-day conclave. His predecessor, Pope ...

A couple miles from the ongoing conclave, sisters in leadership gather at the International Union of Superiors General ...

Among leading traditionalists, Cardinals Robert Sarah and Raymond Burke have garnered the most media attention. A few ...

On May 7, in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel, the conclave for the election of the new pope — the Catholic Church's most secret ...

As 133 cardinals enter the Sistine Chapel to begin voting for a new pope, the church's problems and perplexities remain ...