The cardinals who are electing the next pope sometimes look as ideologically polarized as many secular voters around the ...

As cardinals prepare to meet to select the next pope, many are wondering what stance his successor will take on social issues ...

The Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests is calling for the new pope to impose a zero-tolerance policy.

Husbands and wives marked their wedding anniversaries and honored the vows they renew each day through sacramental love at ...

I don’t think he is going to go, pull the church hard left,” Prevost also said. “I think he’s going to be down the middle.” ...

Majorities want the church to allow use of birth control and IVF, and to permit priests to bless same-sex couples. But views ...

The Baltimore faithful are marking a new era of the Catholic Church amid the election of the first American to become pope.

When he was elevated to the papacy in 2013, Pope Francis was widely expected to shake up the Catholic Church, to liberals’ delight and conservatives’ horror.

(THE CONVERSATION) Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States has been picked to be the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church; he will be known as Pope Leo XIV. Attention now turns to what vision ...

Pope Francis, whose time as head of the Catholic Church was noted for an everyman humility and outreach efforts to people of ...

While some married Protestant ministers had been ordained as Catholic priests after World War II, and Pope Paul VI opened the ...

Three out of 10 said they attend Mass at least once a week, while the remainder attend less frequently or not at all ...