Pope Leo has confirmed all top Vatican officials in their current roles on a temporary basis, giving him time to decide ...

Among the regular pilgrims, tourists and assorted onlookers were groups of nuns. There are around 600,000 Catholic nuns ...

When Villanova University's president, the Rev. Peter Donohue, was nearing graduation as a theatre student, a future pope ...

Who is the new pope? And when is the name revealed? Here's what we know after white smoke emerges over the Vatican.

The Catholic Church's cardinal electors entered the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican to choose a successor to Pope Francis, as ...

A new pope has been chosen, indicated by white smoke that bellowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney on Thursday afternoon.

Catholic cardinals from around the world gathered in the Vatican on Wednesday for the start of the conclave, the ...

A new pope will be selected when a candidate gets a two-thirds-plus-one majority vote by the cardinal electors. White smoke ...

Catholic cardinals are gathering at the Vatican to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21. Voting will ...

Cardinal electors have withdrawn to pray, deliberate and cast votes in secret elections. The proceedingss are set to continue ...

Catholic cardinals gather and sequester themselves in the Vatican for the start of a conclave to elect a new pope.

Cardinal Robert Prevost on Thursday became the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church.