They’ll take their oaths of secrecy under the daunting vision of heaven and hell in Michelangelo’s “Last Judgement,” hear a meditation from a senior cardinal, and then cast their first ballot.

10:20 am May 7, 2025: This story was updated with new information. VATICAN CITY — Catholic cardinals who will choose the next pope filed into the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, before locking ...

Pope Leo XIV is being described by Cardinal Timothy Dolan as a "citizen of the world" who will seek to build bridges with President Donald Trump and other global leaders.

Catholic cardinals who will choose the next pope filed into the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, before locking themselves away ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday begin the secretive, centuries-old ritual to elect a successor to Pope Francis, opening the most ...

A cardinal predicted that the selection process for the successor to Pope Francis, who died April 21 at the age of 88, “will ...

With memes from the papal funeral, NFL draft-style videos of the cardinals rumored to be leading candidates and AI-generated reels of Pope Francis meeting Jesus and Michael Jackson in heaven ...

Reflecting on the spiritual process of electing a new pope, New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan has ... us that we all have our true citizenship in heaven,” Dolan agreed. “As St. Paul taught ...

Cardinals meeting at the Vatican elected a ... He reminds us that we all have our true citizenship in heaven, as St. Paul taught us. And that is his role as universal pastor.

but a cardinal sighting wasn’t commonplace. Nevertheless, Dorothy Booth made a promise to send a tiny red bird once she reached the other side someday, a vow she hoped to keep with heaven’s help.