Later in the morning, local Churches started tolling the death knell from their bell towers. The request had come from ...

With the death of Pope Francis at age 88, Christian world now awaits papal conclave, which will conclude with white smoke ...

Pope Francis had lived in the Santa Marta guest house in the Vatican, not far from St Peter's Basilica, since his election in ...

Pope Francis's death sets an ancient machinery into motion. Soon, with a puff of smoke, the last absolute monarchy in Europe ...

The conclave to elect a new pope is held at the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican and the cardinals are secluded to ensure ...

The process by which a new pope is elected has undergone numerous changes in the nearly two millennia that the Catholic ...

Pope Francis' September 11 meeting with Dominican Father Gustavo Gutierrez was an informal one, held in the in the pope's residence, the Domus Sanctae Marthae, and not listed on his official schedule.