Cardinals electing a new pope have some fundamental questions to weigh, beyond whether to give the Catholic Church its first ...

By Sharon Braithwaite, Caitlin Danaher and Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — All mobile phone signals will be deactivated in the Vatican on Wednesday ahead of the highly secretive conclave to elect the ...

The main question on this second consideration is whether the next pope should continue what Pope Francis has initiated, or ...

Conclave to elect new pope starts Wednesday in Sistine Chapel Cardinals discuss Church divisions, future pope’s profile ...

Cleaners and cooks. Doctors and nurses. Even drivers and elevator operators. The support staff for the cardinals who will ...

Vatican deactivated mobile signals on 7 May ahead of the papal conclave, ensuring absolute secrecy as 133 cardinals gathered ...

NCR analyzed the biographies, background, articles, speeches, homilies and media interviews of members of the College of ...

A papal conclave blends the political and the spiritual, cardinals and theologians say. Here, in Catholic belief, is how the ...

The announcement “Habemus Papam” — “We have a pope” — from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica is followed first by the ...

Among the roughly 1.4 billion Catholics around the world, many are keenly anticipating the upcoming conclave at the Vatican ...

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