Sri Lankan Cardinal Albert Malcolm Ranjith, the 77-year-old archbishop of Colombo, represents a more traditional doctrinal ...

Interview. U.S. theologian William Cavanaugh — before the conclave that will take place starting May 7 — weighs in on the ...

Named a cardinal by Pope Francis in 2022, French Archbishop Jean-Marc Aveline of Marseille, 66, is a hands-on theologian and ...

Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, 59, is a celebrated author and intellectual in the Portuguese-speaking world who ...

Interview. Philippe Chenaux, emeritus professor of modern and contemporary Church history at the Pontifical Lateran ...

Cardinal Dominique Mamberti, a seasoned Vatican diplomat and native of Corsica, will be the one to announce the name of the ...

Each day, our special correspondents in Rome tell you what is happening at the Vatican during this very special time leading ...

During their daily meeting since the death of Pope Francis, the cardinals gathered in College for their 5th general ...

When the cardinals are gathered in conclave, the world scrutinizes the color of the smoke that comes out of the Sistine ...

According to the rules established by St. John Paul II, only cardinals under 80 years old will participate in the vote to ...

Inah Canabarro Lucas, a BrazilianTeresian nun believed to be the world’s oldest living person, died April 30, at the age of ...

Major voices of the conclave. Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, 67, head of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Evangelization, is widely ...