From king to the world’s pastor: How will the next pope change the style of the papacy? By Zac Davis The scarlet robes. The ...

Far from the Sistine Chapel where cloistered cardinals will cast votes, people are placing bets on who will be chosen as the ...

Few, if any, Latin Americans show up on the speculative lists of who might be elected as the supreme pontiff, or “papabile.” ...

Casa Santa Marta is abuzz with workers, engineers, and Vatican officials transforming the guesthouse that was the residence ...

The influence of the Synod on Synodality for the conclave—and what the result of the conclave might mean for the future of synodality ...

Pope Francis was not afraid of messiness. That seems to have been part and parcel of his pastoral freedom, charging into ...

The conclave that begins next Wednesday to elect a successor for Pope Francis is the first in 46 ½ years for which the ...

Preparations for the conclave to find a new pope accelerated Friday with the installation of the chimney out of the Sistine ...

Catholics can (and do!) debate whether Pope Francis was an effective evangelizer. But we can say for sure that he followed ...

I never knew how much I wanted to go to Rome until I got there.

I wish I did not have to vote because I wish that Francis were still alive. But it is a fact that he has left us,” Cardinal ...

Since the death of Pope Francis, lists of his possible successors have proliferated on social media and in newspapers. Should ...