Will the adage 'fat pope, thin pope' bear out as cardinals pick a successor to Pope Francis in the May 7 conclave?

Catholic cardinals acknowledged Wednesday the definitive word is still out about the Vatican trial that convicted Cardinal ...

Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, the oldest person in the world, died on Wednesday 30 April in Porto Alegre, Brazil, at the age ...

While waiting for the announcement of the next leader of the Catholic Church, here is a list of movies to keep you occupied ...

Whoever is chosen as the next pope will inherit a Catholic Church that is facing some of its toughest challenges in decades.

Martin Scorsese is producing a documentary made with Pope Francis that will chronicle the late pontiff’s work with cinema in ...

A week before the conclave to choose a new pope opens, preparatory talks intensified Wednesday as cardinals sounded out ...

The conclave will have 135 cardinals, with Asian cardinals forming a visible 17 percent of them. African cardinals number 18 ...

When news of Pope Francis’ passing came, it took some time to sit with what that meant, for me and the world at large. My ...

Ghana’s Cardinal Peter Turkson is seen as one of the Church’s most influential men from Africa, where Christianity is quickly ...

Known by his peers as a serious theologian, scholar and educator, Erdő, 72, is a leading contender among conservatives. He ...

With the papal conclave that will select the next pontiff set to begin next week, all eyes are on nations with large Catholic ...