Vatican City — “Conclave” the film may have introduced moviegoers to the spectacular ritual and drama of a modern conclave, but the periodic voting to elect a new pope has been going on for centuries ...

The feast of the Visitation was established for the entire Church by Pope Urban VI in 1389, just months before his death, in the hopes of bringing the Great Western Schism to an end through the ...

Pope Francis died today following a long and public battle with pneumonia. He was 88. Francis still had a ways to go to outlive Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903 at 93. But he’s on track to equal or ...