Exit tourists. Enter cardinals. The Vatican has closed the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather for the conclave to elect the next pope after the death of Pope Francis ...

A basketball purist will tell you a slam dunk is worth the same amount of points as a mid-range jumper, a layup or a putback.

Fifteen cardinals taking part in the upcoming conclave are 79 years old — some making it under the cutoff just weeks before ...

According to the Holy See, over 100 cardinal electors participated and renewed their oath of secrecy prescribed by the ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The 135 cardinals eligible to elect the next pope will enter the Sistine Chapel to begin the conclave ...

The millennial saint, Carlo Acutis, was a young Italian who died in 2006 from leukemia and inspired faith in many young ...

A theme of early meetings is the tension between diversity and unity, which have become shorthand for cardinals to signal ...

Revelation 22:19 All Christians - Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant ... absolutely set apart from all other literature, but a central body of material, the Torah (i.e. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus ...

Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who is running the Vatican until a new pope is elected, led the procession to the altar, with clouds of incense and the choir chanting the Litany of Saints hymn ... in the 1.4 ...