A change in popes is a complicated process. Here are the need-to-know terms — some of them in Latin — to help make sense of ...

Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Francis was elected Pope in 2013 after his predecessor Pope Benedict XVI became the first Pope to resign in about 600 years. Francis, chosen as TIME’ ...

A Catholic scholar explains every step of the conclave process that will determine the successor to the late Pope Francis.

After Pope Francis’s death at the age of 88, the process of electing the next pontiff will begin. Cardinal electors, the vast ...

The death of a pope triggers a centuries-old ritual to elect a new one. It involves sacred oaths, the piercing of ballots ...

The papal conclave will be influenced by Pope Francis, whose picks to the College of Cardinals increased its geographic ...

Star Wars can be a little light on the details when it comes to the Force and the more esoteric concepts in the story, leaving fans to discuss amongst themselves until they find an interpretation they ...

Papal experts have lauded the Oscar-nominated film as one of the more accurate depictions of the closed-door Vatican ...

If God is willing to conduct a dialogue with a human being and change His mind, how much more so must human beings conduct a ...