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

The Pope, famous—perhaps foremost—for his insistence on simplicity and aversion to clerical glitz, wanted to be buried not at ...

LONDON and ROME -- The Vatican released photos of the tomb of Pope Francis, who was buried on Saturday in the Basilica of St.

The Vatican released photos of the tomb of Pope Francis as it was opened for public viewing Sunday. He was buried in the ...

President Trump has embraced power and the powerful — and many Americans have followed his lead. It makes perfect sense that ...

As royals, presidents and hundreds of thousands of Catholic faithful headed to Rome following Pope Francis's death, a video ...

How a New Pope Is Chosen—and Who It Could Be. Ordained as a priest in 1976, Dolan was appointed as an auxiliary bishop of the ...

On Sunday, the Vatican released images showing the tomb of Pope Francis at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major, also known as ...

Pope Francis and Kirill, patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, signed a Joint Declaration in Havana in 2016, which aimed to ...

British Cardinal Vincent Nichols provides an insider’s view of what’s going on in these days before the conclave to elect a ...

At private dinners and at formal gatherings of cardinals, talk among church leaders of who will next lead the church has ...

A symbolic turning point for U.S. climate policy, and by extension the world, happened when President Ronald Reagan removed ...