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 ...

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

Cardinals are meeting in a secret, sacred conclave for a second day as they seek a new pontiff to follow Pope Francis.

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

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 ...

Will cardinals continue Pope Francis' progressive ways or will they turn back the clock in favor of traditionalists?

The unprecedented number of 133 cardinal electors surpasses all previous papal conclaves, breaking the previous record of 115 ...

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

Catholic cardinals gather and sequester themselves in the Vatican for the start of a conclave to elect a new pope.

It’s a big decision that has the whole world watching and waiting. Who will be the next Pope? That’s the question the ...

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 ...