The United States is the home country of 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope of the Catholic Church.

The next pope is unlikely to hail from the U.S., but here are three possible outliers who could be a factor when the College of Cardinals convenes on Wednesday.

When the cardinals enter the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday at the start of conclave, the process of electing a new pope, they ...

In total, 133 cardinals will be voting during this conclave, the most electors ever, with 108 of them being appointed by Pope ...

Cardinal Raymond Burke, 76, a former archbishop of St. Louis, and Cardinal Joseph Tobin, 72, archbishop of Newark.

With representatives from 70 countries across five continents, this conclave is the largest -- and the most international -- ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a native of Chicago, has spent the bulk of his career outside the United States. Supporters ...

Beyond simply picking who the next pope will be, players and gamblers also can guess how many tries it will take the ...

As the world's Catholic cardinals meet this week to discuss who should succeed Francis, the deliberations will have to ...

But Faggioli, pointing to the declining influence of the United States in the world, said, “An American pope is less impossible than one might think.” While still a longshot, two U.S ...

After a tumultuous papacy, Pope Francis leaves the Chair of Peter with faithful American Catholics anticipating a return to orthodoxy.

WASHINGTON -US President Donald Trump on April 29 joked that he would like to succeed Pope Francis, who died last week at the age of 88. Mr Trump, asked about whom he’d like to see become the ...