All 12 Republicans on the Senate committee voted in favor of Brian Burch, while all 10 of the committee’s Democrat members ...

Smoke signals have occurred at mid-morning, noon, mid-afternoon and evening. The longest conclave took three years.

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

Ahead of the 2013 conclave to replace Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan was tipped to restore the papal hat ...

The world won’t know the next leader of the world’s Catholics until he appears before a throng of supporters in St. Peter’s ...

Around the time COVID hit, golf went from a form of leisure to a competitive hobby. She started playing in small local ...

The qualities experts say we need in a new pope range from a unifier, to a reformer to being a disciple of Christ.

“I believe the Holy Spirit always intervenes in the choosing of the next pope,” the Rev. Halmar Adolis Calix, a priest from ...

The prayer book is the “ Ordo Rituum Conclavis ” (“Rites of the Conclave”), which was approved by St. John Paul II in 1998, ...

Pope Francis chose 149 of the current members of the college, most of whom will help choose his successor as cardinal ...

Bishops in Cameroon have gathered in the capital Yaoundé for their 50th Ordinary Plenary, but the death of Pope Francis and ...