Meet the Irish-American Camerlengo and Italian dean who are in charge of administering the Church during this interim period.

As an almost 90-year-old, Bishop Emeritus J. Kevin Boland of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Savannah stays busy doing what he ...

There are just a handful of Catholic cardinals across the UK and Ireland, some of whom are expected to cast a vote for the ...

The death of Pope Francis has triggered a period of mourning in the Vatican and signals the start of a millennia-old process ...

Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who was born in Ireland and who became a naturalized ... s Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, a significant Catholic church and papal basilica. He had arranged for an ...

Pope Francis changed the face of the modern papacy more than any predecessor by shunning much of its pomp and privilege, but ...

a cardinal has to be younger than 80. Francis appointed 108 ... He did not overcome the divisions in the church within the rich world. Rather, he troubled Catholic conservatives without making ...

After a long period of declining health which saw an increasingly debilitated Francis struggling to hold onto life, it was the demonic visitation of US ...

Inherited a deeply divided Church after Benedict XVI's resignation in 2013 Appointed 80% of cardinal electors ... but his attempts to make the Catholic Church more inclusive and less judgmental ...

The body of Pope Francis was carried in a solemn procession Wednesday from his residence within the walls of the Vatican City ...

Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell confirmed the news of the death of the pontiff via a statement released by the Vatican.

The battle to succeed Pope Francis is one for the very soul of the Catholic Church and its over a billion ... will appoint his successor, with about 80 per cent of the 138 Cardinals eligible ...