A papal conclave blends the political and the spiritual, cardinals and theologians say. Here, in Catholic belief, is how the ...

The papal conclave...is a sacred event grounded in the belief the Holy Spirit guides the cardinals in choosing the next pope” ...

When the cardinals gather in the Pauline Chapel and process to the Sistine Chapel on May 7 to begin the process of choosing a ...

Invoking the help of the Holy Spirit and recognizing that millions of people all over the world were praying for them, 133 cardinals entered the Sistine Chapel with a singular goal: to elect ...

Entering the Sistine Chapel to elect Francis' successor, Koovakad and the other cardinals from the Eastern Catholic ... Holy Spirit by singing the ancient hymn, "Veni Creator Spiritus" ("Come ...

The day before you begin the Ten-Day Devotion, which is the eve of the glorious Ascension of our divine Redeemer, you must prepare yourself by making a firm resolution to live an interior life and ...

More than 130 Catholic cardinals on Wednesday began the secretive, centuries-old ritual to elect a successor to Pope Francis, ...

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

For the Catholic, liberation comes through communion, writes Michael Sean Winters. The pope is the guarantor of that ...