All Roman Catholics are Christians, but not the other way around, differing in beliefs about the sacraments, the pope, the ...

Here's what you need to know about how a pope is chosen. What is a conclave? A conclave is a meeting of the College of ...

Survivors of clerical abuse, experts in child protection and victim advocacy groups have collectively decried the presence of ...

A Catholic scholar explains every step of the conclave process that will determine the successor to the late Pope Francis.

While there are those who want to back away from Francis' outreach there is one unalterable fact: When the world's Catholic ...

While any baptized Roman Catholic male is eligible, only cardinals have been selected as pope since 1378. The winner must receive at least two-thirds of the votes from those cardinals who are under ...

As the conclave approaches, the cardinals have emphasized that this is a time of grace and discernment for the Church.

Speculation surrounding a conclave to elect a pope is a time-honored tradition. But for the impending conclave following the ...