The conclave to appoint a successor to the late Pope Francis had been mired in controversy over the status of disgraced ...

Cardinal Becciu has left the conclave, which convenes on May 7, as front-runners emerge to succeed Pope Francis.

The archbishop of Rabat Cardinal Cristobal Lopez Romero has expressed a mix of curiosity and anxiety as he prepares for his ...

When a pope dies or resigns, the Catholic Church follows an ancient, secretive process called the conclave to elect his ...

A clerical twist has thrust Kenya’s Cardinal Njue into the global spotlight as he’s now eligible to vote for the next Pope, ...

Asia’s front-runner for the papacy, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of the Philippines is a charismatic moderate often dubbed the ...

Songwe and her co-authors suggest that conditional debt relief could be a powerful way of providing this support. They make the case for “greening debt restructuring”, with creditors taking haircuts ...

Millions around the world tuned in to watch as Pope Francis was laid to rest on 26 April, with 400,000 mourners alone paying ...

Fantapapa: The fantasy football inspired game for Italians who can’t bet on the next Pope - Gambling companies are offering ...

A Nigerian priest who attended the funeral of Pope Francis was happy to have met Cardinal John Onaiyekan at the Vatican. He ...

Allegations of stacking the deck would certainly have ensued had Pope Francis been anything but a popular religious leader who by right is an absolute monarch when it comes to the affairs of the ...

The stamps, released on Monday, mark the interregnum between the death of Pope Francis and the election of his successor, a ...