All eyes are on Vatican City for the sign of a new pope, as cardinals processed into the Sistine Chapel to begin the secret ...

May 7, a conclave will begin in the Vatican. This is a special gathering of cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church who are to ...

Experts say there isn’t a single front-runner, but several names have been cited as indications of the direction the Roman ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican's Secretary of State for the last 12 years and its top diplomat, has emerged on nearly ...

Who are the contenders to be pope? They include a street priest, a missionary and a Lutheran convertWanted: A holy man.Job ...

Speaking to JI, prominent Italian journalist Maurizio Molinari laments ‘wave of dehumanization of Jews’ in Italy and implores Trump to see Israel’s war against Hamas and Ukraine’s against Russia as th ...

All 133 cardinals eligible to elect Pope Francis’s successor have arrived in Rome for the conclave. They will take their ...

There is much mystery and ritual attached to a conclave and the deliberations of the 133 cardinal electors now cloistered behind the doors of the Sistine Chapel. The only certain outcome is that ...

But papal betting has a long history. Roman banking houses were taking bets as far back as 1503. Alessandro Damasceni Peretti ...