Fr. Schmidt says in past centuries, some conclaves have lasted for months, but no conclave has lasted more than four days ...

The first thing the new pope will do is choose a name. In the history of the papacy, the most commonly used name has been ...

And they will determine whether the adage "fat pope, thin pope" holds true or whether the next leader of the Catholic Church ...

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

As cardinals prepare for the largest papal conclave in history, battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the church ...

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Sixteen days after the reign of Pope Francis ended with his death on Easter Monday, the Catholic Church is looking to the future. The papal conclave got underway Wednesday afternoon in Rome ...

Cardinal Daniel DiNardo led the Sioux City diocese as bishop for six years during the early 2000s. The 75-year-old is ...

Here's when we could see smoke -- and a new pope -- now that the conclave is getting underway in Vatican City.

Douthat: Isn’t one under-the-radar issue at the conclave whether the church should extend what ... the leader of a tiny Catholic community in a Protestant and hyper-secularized country, but ...

Robert Prevost has been elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born ...

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves Wednesday behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to ...