ROME (AP) — Rome is bustling with jasmine blooming and tourists swarming. But behind closed doors, these are the days of ...

Argentine faithful hope the next Pope to be like Pope Francis, as cardinals are set to start the conclave Wednesday to elect ...

There are currently 135 cardinals who are under age 80 and eligible to vote in the conclave, hailing from 71 different ...

Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle is sometimes called the “Asian Francis” because of his infectious smile, easy laugh, and ...

COMMENTARY: Pope Francis’ successor should address four main aspects: persecution, social doctrine, missionary withering and poor governance.

Though Francis didn’t make major changes to the conclave, his outreach to what he called “peripheries’’ leaves an imprint ...

ROME -- They don’t have a vote in the pope’s election, but nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female Catholic orders met in Rome on Monday to chart a course forward, a few miles from where cardinals ...

Thousands gathered for a massive Mass outside the Metropolitan Cathedral in Buenos Aires to remember the life and legacy ...

Argentines bid farewell to Pope Francis on Saturday, holding a massive open-air mass in front of the cathedral where he ...

Francis, who came from a middle-class neighborhood in Buenos Aires, became known as the Jesuit priest who rode the city’s ...

St. Monica parishioner Cristian Bustos recalls the pope, from his native Argentina, as an "incredibly humble man who touched ...