Long touted as a potential successor to Pope Francis, Hungary’s conservative Cardinal Peter Erdo is a respected expert on ...

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

And they will determine whether the adage "fat pope, thin pope" holds true or whether the next leader of the Catholic Church ...

Ghana’s Cardinal Peter Turkson is seen as one of the Church’s most influential men from Africa, where Christianity is quickly ...

Martin Scorsese is a producing a documentary made with Pope Francis that will chronicle the late pontiff's work with cinema ...

Catholic cardinals acknowledged Wednesday the definitive word is still out about the Vatican trial that convicted Cardinal ...

Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, the oldest person in the world, died on Wednesday 30 April in Porto Alegre, Brazil, at the age ...

The conclave will have 135 cardinals, with Asian cardinals forming a visible 17 percent of them. African cardinals number 18 ...

When news of Pope Francis’ passing came, it took some time to sit with what that meant, for me and the world at large. My ...

Known by his peers as a serious theologian, scholar and educator, Erdő, 72, is a leading contender among conservatives. He ...

With the papal conclave that will select the next pontiff set to begin next week, all eyes are on nations with large Catholic ...

ASIA'S front-runner for the papacy, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of the Philippines, is a charismatic moderate often dubbed ...