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Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves Wednesday behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to ...

The Catholic Church is not dying from persecution. It is dying from confusion. Under Pope Francis, ambiguity became policy.

And they will determine whether the adage "fat pope, thin pope" holds true or whether the next leader of the Catholic Church ...

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Catholic cardinals gather and sequester themselves in the Vatican for the start of a conclave to elect a new pope.

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

The conclave lasted one day and 24 minutes ... told reporters that the pope is truly the father of the Catholic Church. “We rely on him to teach us, we rely on him to guide us, and we so ...

However, for centuries, popes have only been chosen from among the Catholic cardinals, the church's most senior officials. The conclave takes place in the Sistine Chapel, behind sealed doors.

A papal conclave is an ancient electoral process through the Catholic Church where those under the age of 80 in the College of Cardinals vote to elect a new pontiff. The conclave began in the ...