As cardinals prepare for the largest papal conclave in history, battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the church ...

The 2025 papal conclave will be the most geographically diverse in history, reflecting the global nature of the Catholic ...

As a fireworks expert tests the Vatican's contemporary system for "holy smoke," Catholic cardinals mull their divergent ...

Bets on real-world events are becoming more common, and putting down some money on who will become the Catholic Church’s next ...

With representatives from 70 countries across five continents, this conclave is the largest -- and the most international -- ...

The closed-door conclave to elect a new pope following Pope Francis's death will begin on May 7, 2025-a crucial moment for ...

Two cardinals, Michael Czerny and Chibly Langlois, sat down with ABC News to discuss the challenges facing the church that ...

When the cardinals enter the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday at the start of conclave, the process of electing a new pope, they ...

"And so it is what is, I guess, but it's very unfortunate," said Milwaukee Archbishop Jeffrey S. Grob. "It's a very serious ...

Hype has been building on social media around the Catholic Church’s secretive, centuries-old tradition of conclaves to elect ...

Pope Francis diversified the College of Cardinals more than any of his predecessors, shifting the balance of power away from ...

They seem fundamentally united in finding a pope who will be able to make the 2,000-year-old church credible and relevant ...