In lavish halls, days before a conclave will select a new pope, power brokers came together for a mix of devotion, activism, ...

ROME — They don’t have a vote in the election of a pope, but nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female religious orders ...

On the eve of the conclave to elect the next pope, the world's smallest country, Vatican City, is engulfed in commotion as ...

Ahead of the 2013 conclave to replace Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan was tipped to restore the papal hat ...

Starting July 1, the Catholic churches that serve Rome and Lee Center will merge into a single parish. Church leaders said ...

American Catholics who traveled to Rome spoke to "CBS Mornings" about what they want the next pope to represent as they ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa is a Vatican outsider, but his experience in a region sacred to three major religions may ...

As Catholics in Rome await the election of their new bishop, the pope, some of them celebrated Sunday Mass at their parishes ...

Excluded from the conclave to elect a new pope Wednesday — and more broadly from the Church’s entire global priesthood — some ...

Nuns don’t have a vote in the election of a pope ROME -- They don’t have a vote ... which opens Wednesday. The Catholic Church reserves the priesthood for men, so only men will choose the ...

As cardinals from Myanmar to Malta ready themselves for the largest papal conclave in history, battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the Catholic Church. Pope Francis sought to drag ...