The basilica was bathed in a hushed silence as mourners from across the globe made a slow, shuffling procession up the main ...

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

From patrols on the River Tiber to surveillance drones and snipers deployed around St. Peter's Square, Rome is preparing to ...

The conclave to select the next pontiff has not started yet, but meetings to set the agenda and to decide on the logistics of mourning for Francis were gathering pace.

Alongside the gossip and the gallows humor, the ancient and solemn rituals continue,” Chiara Barzini writes from Italy.

The congregation also determined which cardinals will celebrate each of the subsequent Novendiales Masses through May 4.

So many mourners lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state in a simple wooden coffin inside St. Peter’s Basilica that the ...

Timothy M. Dolan is one of 10 cardinals from the United States who will have a vote in the ritual that will determine the ...

Italian authorities are preparing one of the most complex and secretive security operations in Vatican history as 200,000 ...

The Vatican opted to extend the visiting hours at St. Peter's Basilica on the evening of Wednesday, April 23, as thousands of ...

Thousands flooded through the walls of Vatican City as a procession of cardinals and pallbearers took the body of the late ...