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

If the next pope is from sub-Saharan Africa, he would be the first in Catholic Church history. Catholic Africans think it is ...

It is typically absurd to think of an American as pope. But in this conclave, a Chicago-born Augustinian friar who has spent ...

Despite the warm embrace from Romans and while Rome observes nine days of mourning for the popular late pope, a few of ...

NCR readers respond to coverage of prominent Catholic philanthropist Tim Busch and a controversial cartoon in The New Yorker.

In his care for the incarcerated, the late Holy Father shows us the extent to which Christian love can — and should — be ...

More than 60% of Vietnam is under the age of 40, with no memory of what people here call the American war. For them, April 30 ...

The cardinals will elect a person next week, not a platform. So, while they are discussing issues facing the church and the ...

Cardinal François-Xavier Bustillo of Ajaccio, France, is surrounded by members of the media as he approaches the Petriano ...

German Jesuit Fr. Hans Zollner urges "a clear message from the cardinals and from the newly elected pope that the church is set to continue and strengthen what has been achieved so far." ...

Over-80 cardinals, who cannot vote in the conclave, are lashing out at the Francis papacy, calling for change of course.

The next pope will need to be a spiritual leader who is himself unafraid, and offers Christians — and all people of good — ...