ROME (WLS) -- Several hundred Chicagoans headed to Rome Tuesday for Archbishop Blase Cupich's elevation to cardinal. Pope Francis will elevate Cupich to cardinal this Saturday at the Vatican. More ...

In the jasmine-scented, tourist-thronged streets of Rome, a quiet drama unfolds behind closed doors. Cardinals, gathered to elect Pope Francis's successor, engage in a discreet dance of dinner parties ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Over his 40 years at ABC7, Alan Krashesky has covered the Roman Catholic church extensively. Now, in an exclusive interview, and as Krashesky prepares to retire this week, he talked ...

ROME -- Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini is taking the same spirit to his first conclave that's guided his decades-long front-line ministry among the migrants, poor and Indigenous people in Guatemala's ...

ROME – With Pope Francis remaining in critical condition fighting a complex respiratory infection and bilateral pneumonia, the cardinals and curial officials in Rome have organized a rosary and ...

ROME — Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini is taking the same spirit to his first conclave that’s guided his decades-long front-line ministry among the migrants, poor and Indigenous people in Guatemala’s ...

Thousands of people visited the tomb of Pope Francis at Saint Mary Major Basilica in Rome on Sunday, one day after his majestic funeral service. The tomb simply reads "Franciscus" in Latin, reflecting ...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan celebrated a special Mass for the soul of Pope Francis at St. Patrick's Cathedral and then, like so many other New Yorkers on Tuesday, made last-minute plans to fly to Rome.

SOAVE, Italy — The announcement that an American cardinal had been elected Roman Catholic Church’s 267th pope had special meaning for a group of students at an international Catholic school in Rome.