"He always kept a low profile. He was a very serious person,” Ana Maria Belmonte tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview ...

Many cardinals cited the desire to continue Francis’ pastoral focus on people who are marginalized and against war.

Secret conclave to elect the new leader of the global Church will start on May 7. The date was decided during a closed-door ...

The papal conclave, the solemn and secretive process in which cardinals convene to elect a successor to Pope Francis, is to ...

Palestinians mourn the late Pope as a lone western voice against Israel's genocide in Gaza, yet he failed to shift the ...

The Vatican has closed the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather for the conclave to elect the next pope after the ...

With 135 cardinals eligible to vote, the coming conclave is set to be the largest in the history of the Catholic Church and ...

Only cardinals under the age of 80 are allowed to vote in a papal election. There are currently 135 cardinals eligible to ...