The cardinals eligible to vote for the new pope will gather in the coming weeks and enter seclusion to secretly vote for the new bishop of Rome.

With the recent passing of Pope Francis, the world enters a moment not just of mourning, but of reckoning. The head of the ...

In the coming days, cardinals will converge in the Vatican to choose the next head of the Catholic Church. Pope Francis, who ...

Pope Francis smashed the stereotypical profile for a pontiff, becoming the Catholic Church's first leader from the Americas ...

Some 250,000 people paid their respects to Pope Francis during a three-day lying in state at St Peter's Basilica, the Vatican ...

The Vatican was making final preparations Friday for Pope Francis's funeral as the last of the huge crowds of mourners filed ...

An autobiography is not our private story, but rather the baggage we carry with us,” Pope Francis said in his recollections, ...

After the funeral, Francis' coffin will be driven at a walking pace to be buried at his favourite church, Rome's papal basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. The pontiff was a champion of underdogs, and a ...

Polymarket gives the highest chance of becoming the next pope to one of the compromise candidates between progressives and ...

Shortly after Pope Francis died, speculation on who would succeed him became "one of the most popular betting markets in 2025," an analyst says.