NCR's 10 most-read news stories of 2025 include coverage of the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV, massive aid cuts by the ...

Soon after, on March 29, the pontiff was readmitted into the hospital with difficulty breathing. On April 21, the day after ...

In the solemn opening scene of Conclave (2024), the Vatican is thrown into mourning as news spreads: the Pope is dead.

With Pope Francis laid to rest, all eyes turn now to the conclave, the secretive meeting of cardinals set to convene to elect ...

The papal conclave is among the most significant and closely guarded events in the Catholic Church, where cardinals serve not ...

Following the death or abdication of a pope, the Catholic Church's College of Cardinals meets at the Vatican to choose a new leader at a papal conclave. However, a papal conclave does not necessarily ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrates a memorial Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica Nov. 3, 2025, for Pope Francis and all the cardinals and bishops who have died in the past year. Credit: CNS photo/Vatican Media The ...

When Pope Francis died in April on Easter Monday, the news triggered not only an outpouring of mourners but also a centuries-old tradition shrouded in secrecy: the papal conclave. Two weeks later 133 ...

Faithfully adapted from Robert Harris’s 2016 novel, Conclave depicted the religious meeting of its title as a bitchy and ...

News of Cardinal Timothy Dolan's replacement marked one of the most important appointments from Pope Leo XIV so far, but why ...