Catholic cardinals will meet on May 7 to start voting for a new pope, the Vatican announced on Monday (Apr 28), a week after ...

Signs of crisis were everywhere: declining Mass attendance, large-scale conversations with evangelical Christian groups. The stream of scandals torpedoed the reputation of countless priests and ...

The age limit for electors was introduced by Pope Paul VI in the 1970s and was confirmed by Pope John Paul II’s 1996 ...