Francis always encouraged me in our attempt to move forward as an ecumenical community and in welcoming young people from ...

Far from the Sistine Chapel where cloistered cardinals will cast votes, people are placing bets on who will be chosen as the ...

Pope Francis was not afraid of messiness. That seems to have been part and parcel of his pastoral freedom, charging into ...

Casa Santa Marta is abuzz with workers, engineers, and Vatican officials transforming the guesthouse that was the residence ...

I wish I did not have to vote because I wish that Francis were still alive. But it is a fact that he has left us,” Cardinal ...

Few, if any, Latin Americans show up on the speculative lists of who might be elected as the supreme pontiff, or “papabile.” ...

The proportion of cardinal electors from Africa and the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America, and countries in ...

I never knew how much I wanted to go to Rome until I got there.

After every round of voting during a conclave, the ballots are burned with chemicals in a process that enables the cardinals ...

The Pope died last month at the age of 88 due to stroke and heart failure, according to a death certificate released last ...

Catholics can (and do!) debate whether Pope Francis was an effective evangelizer. But we can say for sure that he followed ...

On the seventh day of the Novendiales Masses for Pope Francis, Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti recalled the extreme sacrifice of Catholics from the Eastern Catholic Churches.