"I think the idea of an African pope would be inspirational for all Catholics, and many non-Catholic Africans around the ...

Cardinal Peter Erdo arrives to lead a mass at his titular church of Santa Francesca Romana in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025 ...

A conclave is the centuries-old election of a pope that derives its name from the Italian “con clave” (with a key) to ...

Hundreds of cardinals attended mass inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Sunday, to mark the end of a nine-day mourning ...

But papal betting has a long history. Roman banking houses were taking bets as far back as 1503. Alessandro Damasceni Peretti ...

Shortly after it was announced that Pope Francis had died, online gambling websites posted the betting favorites to replace ...

Conclave” the film may have introduced moviegoers to the spectacular ritual and drama of a modern conclave, but the periodic ...

Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini is taking to his first conclave the same spirit that guided his decades-long front-line ministry ...

It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that ended the longest papal election in the ...

Vance — the highest-ranking Catholic elected official in the nation — was asked on Twitter what he thought of Trump’s mocking ...

The voting is highly choreographed and time-consuming to avoid any possibility of fraud or doubt about the results.