It's called Fantapapa - instead of football players, or the hottest singers, there are the cardinals who will participate in ...

The French president held a series of meetings with cardinals and other Church officials while in the Italian capital last ...

At private dinners and at formal gatherings of cardinals, talk among church leaders of who will next lead the church has certainly already begun.

A possible contender for the papacy, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi has worked with the needy and the disenfranchised, even as he ...

Faithful attend a National Memorial Service for the late Pope Francis, at the Roman Catholic church, in Soweto, South Africa, ...

The video allegedly showing a man being escorted away from the late pontiff's body appeared online before the lying in state ...

Leading the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church. Location: Vatican City. There are no official candidates for the papacy, but ...

Ghana’s Cardinal Peter Turkson is seen as one of the Church’s most influential men from Africa, where Christianity is quickly ...

Will the adage 'fat pope, thin pope' bear out as cardinals pick a successor to Pope Francis in the May 7 conclave?

Cardinals from around the world are preparing for what will be the largest papal conclave in history, and the first African American cardinal in the U.S., who began his Catholic journey on Chicago's ...

Hollywood and the media love intrigue. And the interregnum in the Catholic Church provides much fodder for an institution that has long resisted secularism.