The spiritual leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics will be elected from the College of Cardinals next week ...

Allegations of stacking the deck would certainly have ensued had Pope Francis been anything but a popular religious leader who by right is an absolute monarch when it comes to the affairs of the ...

US President Donald Trump said he'd "like to be pope" and it would be his "number one choice" to be the next leader of the ...

There are no official candidates for the papacy, but some cardinals are considered “papabile,” or possessing the ...

A coalition of survivors of clergy sexual abuse are demanding that cardinals entering the conclave will pick a pope who will ...