Pope Francis’ emphasis on reaching out to the “peripheries" of the church and world will result in the most diverse ...

Cardinals this week will start in-depth discussions on planning the conclave to choose Pope Francis' successor ...

One in 5 of the world’s Catholics now live in Africa, and African cardinals will be key in determining Francis’s successor at ...

Pope Francis died at age 88 on April 21, setting off a series of centuries-old rituals to select a new leader of the Catholic ...

With Pope Francis laid to rest, all eyes turn now to the conclave, the secretive meeting of cardinals set to convene within ...

Cardinal Christophe Pierre, papal nuncio to the United States, reflected on Pope Francis’s legacy and the evangelizing ...

After a period of mourning, cardinals will gather to elect the next pope in the centuries-old ritual known as the conclave.

“I don’t think the cardinals quite behave as they’re depicted [in Conclave],” says Miles Pattenden, a historian of the Catholic Church, “but in terms of how it lays out the ...