Francis died April 21 at age 88. He was elected March 13, 2013, after five votes in a two-day conclave. His predecessor, Pope ...

Among leading traditionalists, Cardinals Robert Sarah and Raymond Burke have garnered the most media attention. A few ...

As 133 cardinals enter the Sistine Chapel to begin voting for a new pope, the church's problems and perplexities remain ...

The name "Franciscus" is seen engraved on the tomb of Pope Francis inside the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome. The ...

As people watched the papal election process unfold, advocates for issues including female clergy expressed hopes and fears ...

Invoking the help of the Holy Spirit and recognizing that millions of people all over the world were praying for them, 133 ...

Since the birth of the modern environment movement in the 1970s, every pope has turned attention toward matters of ecology — ...

At Mass before the conclave that will elect the next pope, the dean of the College of Cardinals urged his brothers to choose ...

A couple miles from the ongoing conclave, sisters in leadership gather at the International Union of Superiors General assembly May 5-9, with Pope Francis' spirit of synodality at its center.

For the Catholic, liberation comes through communion, writes Michael Sean Winters. The pope is the guarantor of that ...

Mario García is senior adviser for news design and adjunct professor at Columbia University School of Journalism and the CEO and founder of García Media. He has redesigned more than 750 publications ...

"Francis was my pope for less than two days," said a new Catholic visiting from the U.S. "I wish he'd stayed longer, because ...