Cardinal Angelo Becciu is pictured after being made a cardinal by Pope Francis during a consistory in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican in this June 28, 2018, file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) A ...

Pope Francis on Saturday installed 13 new cardinals, including the first African-American to hold the high rank, further expanding the pontiff's impact on the group that will one day elect his ...

FILE - Cardinals hold the red three-cornered biretta hats before a consistory inside the St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File) VATICAN CITY (AP ...

Francis likes to keep people on their toes and will have known that announcing the consistory would set off plenty of ...

Speculation surrounding a conclave to elect a pope is a time-honored tradition. But for the impending conclave following the death of Pope Francis, the ranks of armchair Vatican experts have swelled ...

They hail from 11 countries. Rome -- Pope Francis created 14 new cardinals Thursday at a ceremony at the Vatican. Francis said these new cardinals, who hail from 11 countries including Iraq, Poland, ...

(NEXSTAR) – Pope Francis was still holding meetings and making significant decisions from the Gemelli hospital in Rome on Monday despite his ongoing health issues and treatment for double pneumonia.

Pope Francis died Monday, the day after Easter, at the age of 88. As the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, he left behind a legacy of service, unity, and compassion. Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born ...

Defense lawyers in the Holy See’s “trial of the century” have asked the Vatican prosecutor to recuse himself from the appeals trial.

For the first time, the pope is from the United States. The world's 1.4 billion Roman Catholics have a new spiritual leader, the 267th pontiff to lead the nearly 2,000-year-old church. Robert Francis ...