White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, signalling that cardinals locked inside have elected ...

New pope's deliberate decision to identify with Peru in particular and the Global South generally is no accident ...

Despite being the “princes” of the church, the cardinals are not exempt from excommunication if they violate the rules of the ...

Cardinals are meeting in Vatican City to choose a new leader for the Catholic Church. This follows the death of Pope Francis.

Catholic cardinals are locked behind the heavy wood doors of the Sistine Chapel, sequestered from the world to elect the man ...

Black smoke billowed from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel on Thursday (May 8), signalling that the cardinals locked in a ...

I met the man who would become Pope Leo XIV in October 2023. We were standing outside the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and from my ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday begin the secretive, centuries-old ritual to elect a successor to Pope Francis, opening the ...

The conclave to select the next pope has begun after Catholic cardinals from across the world filed into the Sistine Chapel ...

That fact and that he will be chosen by an all-male College of Cardinals, which convenes ... But because the Catholic Church does not ordain women as priests, according to social elite label ...

Cardinals rank just below the pope, and those who belong to the powerful College of Cardinals are tasked with electing a new ...