It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that ended the longest papal election in the ...

The coming papal conclave is just days away and, within days or weeks of the doors to the Sistine Chapel closing, the ...

As Catholic cardinals meet to choose a new pope, they will face a big question: Is it time, after three consecutive ...

A snapshot of the papacies of the 11 modern popes that preceded Pope Francis, from Pope Benedict XVI to Blessed Pope Pius IX.