A popular saying in Vatican circles is that if you "enter a conclave as pope, you leave as a cardinal." It implies the sacred ...

The election of a new Pope begins between 15 to 20 days after the death. The camerlengo, a cardinal in the Catholic Church, ...

England icon Paul Gascoigne almost left a surprise phone call from The Pope to ring out during a memorable Tottenham training ...

Each elector swears an oath to protect the church’s freedom and the secrecy of the conclave. As the last oath is complete, ...

Pope Francis died after a 12-year papacy and will now be buried in a simpler funeral than that staged after the death of Pope ...

With the death of Pope Francis, announced by the Vatican on Monday, the Roman Catholic Church will begin elaborate rituals ...

With the death of Pope Francis, announced by the Vatican on Monday, Roman Catholics around the globe will start speculating ...

JD Vance shared an emotional tribute to Pope Francis following the 88-year-old pontiff’s death — which came hours after the ...

Now 20 years since Pope John Paul II’s death on ... people who still feel connected to him today. Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz, John Paul II’s personal secretary for nearly four decades ...

Cardinal Dziwisz had been at John Paul II’s side as his personal secretary since 1966, when the future Pope was the new archbishop of Krakow. He said he and others “opened the window ...

This Via Crucis was celebrated by Pope John Paul II on Good Friday in 1991. These stations reflect deeply on the Scriptural accounts of Christ's passion. Then Jesus came with them to a place ...

In “John Paul II, the Feminist Pope” (Houses of Worship, March 14) Erika Bachiochi reduces the pontiff’s teaching to sound bites about abstract “equality” so that it conforms to the ...