Cardinals are bishops and Vatican officials from all over the world, personally chosen by the pope. A conclave is a meeting of the College of Cardinals where an election is held to determine who ...

Because the Cardinals are called to help the Pope in his leadership of the Church, they are also linked in a special way to the Diocese of Rome. With the exception of a small number of Cardinals ...

There are already a number of well-known cardinals whose names have been put forward to fill the role. In 2020, Edward Pentin released an authoritative book on the topic, titled: The Next Pope ...

Bishop Joseph Strickland, a vocal critic of Pope Francis, wrote an open letter to the College of Cardinals urging them to choose wisely in the next conclave. In 2018, Pope Francis removed ...

vote to elect a new pope. Some cardinals, but by no means all, serve in the papal Curia in Rome. Besides the pope, curial officials who oversee important aspects of the church's political and ...

Pope Francis entered his fourth week in the hospital with double pneumonia, increasingly handing off his day-to-day duties to cardinals as questions swirl about the near- and long-term future of ...

While Pope Francis remains hospitalised with double pneumonia, many are asking who might lead the Vatican and Catholic Church in the future. The 88-year-old pontiff showed the onset of ...