Crucial meetings will be held this week in which contenders begin jockeying in earnest for the job of leading the Roman ...

Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb of Pope Francis on Sunday, filing past the simple white tomb in St. Mary ...

The Vatican is closing the Sistine Chapel to the public as part of its preparations for the the conclave to elect the next ...

Pope Francis's modest tomb drew massive queues on the first day of public viewing in Rome on Sunday, a day after an estimated ...

Discussions around the next Pope are heating up. One hundred and 35 cardinals will soon be locked in the Sistine Chapel to vote on his successor in secret ...

Red-hatted cardinals were expected to pick a date Monday for the conclave to elect a new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion ...