The world will learn the name of the new pope when he appears on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica in about an hour.

Everything outside the Sistine Chapel is, now, pure conjecture and everything inside is up to the cardinals and the Holy ...

The display acts as a tribute and also a signal that the Catholic Church, and the culture and businesses that surround it, ...

"You have to trust the process … you don't want them to rush it," said Elizabeth Whelan of Newfoundland, Canada.

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

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

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

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

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 — ...

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.

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 ...