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What happens when a Pope dies is a hugely choreographed and rehearsed series of events, that have been replicated over the ...

Some of the top candidates, ranked by Italian Vatican watcher Gaetano Masciullo and Vaticanists Edward Pentin and Diane ...

Potential successors to Pope Francis are Ghana’s Peter Turkson, Luis Tagle of the Philippines and Hungary’s Peter Erdo.

Pope Francis, a reformer who rattled the Catholic Church's conservatives and inspired some progressives, has died.

The secretive process will see Catholic cardinals vote on who will become the new pope and take the reins of the 1.39 billion ...

OAK HILL, West Virginia (Reuters) -Josh Cochran worked deep in the coal mines of West Virginia since he was 22 years old, ...

Francis, who served as the Pope for over a decade, was a transformative figure in the Catholic Church, known as much for his ...

Faith leaders, politicians, and people around the world mourn the loss of Pope Francis, a humble servant leader who redefined ...

The death of a pope triggers a centuries-old ritual to elect a new one. It involves sacred oaths, the piercing of ballots ...