As cardinals prepare to elect Pope Francis' successor on 7 May, a number of names are being seen as potential candidates.

A Contender in the Mold of Pope Francis: Cardinal Luis Tagle of the Philippines is known as the “Asian Francis .” But he has ...

The Chicago White Sox had a 7-23 record coming into Thursday. Of the 23 defeats, 13 have been by one or two runs.

Ana Maria Belmonte, who knew the late Pope Francis when he worked as a young priest with the Jesuits in San Miguel, Argentina ...

A selection by Reuters editors of some of the photos from Pope Francis' funeral with comments by photographers ...

The culture’s fascination with Francis’ papacy indicated a hunger for the simplicity and humility he projected. It was an ...

The Pope, famous—perhaps foremost—for his insistence on simplicity and aversion to clerical glitz, wanted to be buried not at ...

Pope Francis died at age 88 on April 21, setting off a series of centuries-old rituals to select a new leader of the Catholic ...

Leading the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church. Location: Vatican City. There are no official candidates for the papacy, but ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost joins the conclave Wednesday to pick Pope Francis' successor. His rise in the faith began at a South ...

Crucial meetings will be held this week in which contenders begin jockeying in earnest for the job of leading the Roman ...

Pope Francis chose 149 of the current members of the college, most of whom will help choose his successor as cardinal ...