Oscar-winning movie “Conclave” has moved up the streaming charts following the passing of Pope Francis earlier this week.The ...

Thousands of people began filing through St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their final respects to Pope Francis on Wednesday at the ...

The basilica was bathed in a hushed silence as mourners from across the globe made a slow, shuffling procession up the main ...

Pope Francis nudged the Catholic Church toward change. His successor can see it through ― or take the church back.

Cardinals could pick a progressive pope ready to build off the changes Francis brought to the church or a conservative who could ratchet them back.

Predicting the next pope can be a notoriously secretive and unpredictable exercise. An old Italian saying even ...

Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, who became the first cardinal to ever be prosecuted by the Vatican’s criminal court in ...

Alongside the gossip and the gallows humor, the ancient and solemn rituals continue,” Chiara Barzini writes from Italy.

Pope Francis’ coffin has now been moved to St. Peter’s Basilica, just a few hundred yards from the Chapel of Santa Marta, where he will lie in state until his funeral on Saturday. Tens of thousands ...

Set in the aftermath of a Pope's death, Conclave follows the cardinal tasked to oversee the selection of a new leader of the Catholic Church.

A change in popes is a complicated process. Here are the need-to-know terms — some of them in Latin — to help make sense of news in the coming days.

Timeline: How Pope Francis’ funeral and the Conclave to select his successor will work - The late pope will break from ...