DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent evening ritual: He would call the lone Catholic church in the Gaza Strip to see how people huddled ...

Pope Francis often spoke of acceptance and compassion towards fellow men and worked to make the church a more welcoming place for women and the LGBTQ+ community. On Easter, during his last public ...

This process is called a conclave, and it is how the Roman Catholic Church chooses its next pope after a previous pope dies or retires. Here’s what you need to know about the process.

Francis' headlining changes were a softening of the Church's stance on homosexuality and contraception, an openness to women carrying out leadership positions within the church, and a rejection of ...

For the congregation of a tiny Roman Catholic church in Gaza, he was the voice on the other end of the phone every night, calling to check on them in wartime. "He used to call us at 7 p.m. every ...

She did not want to speak to officers or be looked at by EMS. She said she was waiting on a call from the church to assist her. Suspicious circumstance: Sprague Road An off-duty officer advised ...

Cardinals – senior church officials appointed by the pope – from around the world must gather for the conclave in which Francis’ successor is selected. It typically takes between two and ...

Those over 80 can’t vote but can participate in pre-conclave meetings, known as general congregations, in which church problems are discussed. It was in these meetings in 2013 that then-Cardinal ...

The Sons of Liberty then hung two lanterns from a Boston church steeple to signal that British troops were traveling to Lexington, where the next morning, the first shots of the American ...

Today, the former church on Market Street in Belvidere is a four-unit multi-family dwelling. It has three units with two bedrooms and one bathroom and one unit with three bedrooms, two full and on ...