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

Pope Francis, who died at 88 last month, was the first pontiff to be publicly inclusive of the LGBTQ Catholic community.

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

NCR analyzed the biographies, background, articles, speeches, homilies and media interviews of members of the College of ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 Catholic cardinals are beginning the secretive, centuries-old ritual to elect a new pope ...

The race is now on for the top job.

I don’t know if they’re looking for conservative, liberal, progressive, traditional, fat or thin.. I think they’re just ...

VATICAN CITY — Cardinals wrapped up their pre-conclave meetings Tuesday, trying to identify a possible new pope who could ...

Not without some last-minute and apparently inconsequential drama, 133 cardinals will this afternoon file into the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican to elect the 267th Pope. Ten days after the death of ...

The Holy See shared the minimum qualifications for a pope on its ... The Catholic Church is now in a period of sede vacante ("the see being vacant") following the death of Pope Francis, who passed ...