The last Italian pope died in 1978. Now, among the papal candidates ahead of next week’s conclave, there are several Italian ...

Perhaps a revealing question is whether the church will continue the radical novelty Francis brought as a pope from a ...

Pope Francis has been laid to rest, the conclave has been assembled and, after due deliberation by the participating ...

Papal conclaves have featured calls of election fraud and bribery so gauche that riches were wheeled in on donkey carts.

Columbus is home to the largest collection of diversified Catholic Art in the United States. In light of Thursday’s election ...

The church officially recognizes St. Peter, the first pope, as the longest-serving, with at least 34 years. However, many ...

A hand-written letter from Napoleon denying his role in the kidnapping of Pope Pius VII in 1809 is to go under the hammer ...

It will take at least 89 cardinals to elect Pope Francis's successor. That's the two-thirds supermajority of the 133 men who ...

The chances the cardinals would agree on a new leader in their first vote were vanishingly remote, so today’s result reveals ...

A hand-written letter from Napoleon denying his role in the kidnapping of Pope Pius VII in 1809 was sold at auction on Sunday ...