VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The world's Catholic cardinals met on Monday for the first time after the funeral of Pope Francis to ...

The church is divided. The problem is to find the one who unites, not pretend that it isn’t divided,” one church historian ...

Pope Francis’ death fires the gun on what many see as a battle for the soul of the church – pitting those who want to ...

A Black pope would make a profound statement — not just in the United States, where President Donald Trump has demonized ...

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and ...

Some see the byword as a rallying call in a conservative campaign to reverse Francis’ push for a more inclusive church.

Meet the Irish-American Camerlengo and Italian dean who are in charge of administering the Church during this interim period.

After attending Pope Francis’s funeral Saturday and as they begin pre-conclave meetings to discuss the state of the world and ...

Cardinals arriving for the first day of informal meetings after Pope Francis’ funeral were swarmed at the city-state’s gates ...

Catholic cardinals have begun preparations for a conclave to elect the next pope following Francis' death, as debates over ...

Francis, pope since 2013, died aged 88 on April 21. His funeral on Saturday and a procession through Rome to his burial place ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin told some 200,000 people in St. Peter’s Square that Pope Francis had made the message of God’s ...