One in 5 of the world’s Catholics now live in Africa, and African cardinals will be key in determining Francis’s successor at ...

Audrey Carville hears from the former Irish President Dr Mary McAleese about Pope Francis and the challenges for his ...

President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine are among the world leaders who plan to attend the funeral. The ...

The cardinals eligible to vote for the new pope will gather in the coming weeks and enter seclusion to secretly vote for the ...

Catholics in Maryland and nationwide attended their first Sunday Mass without Pope Francis leading the church.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb of Pope Francis on Sunday, filing past the simple white ...

Africa's Catholic population surges – even as numbers elsewhere decline. A look at some of the top headlines across the ...

Wyoming Catholics are reacting to the death of Pope Francis with sorrow and hope. Even a self-described Casper “cafeteria ...

India has had a thriving community of Eastern Orthodox Christians, brought by Saint Thomas the Apostle to India.

If the sole predictor of who would become the next pope was where the Catholic Church is growing fastest, then it is almost ...

Cardinals attend Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica, before they enter the conclave to decide who the next pope will be, on March ...

The message that shone through Francis’s provisions for his departure was that the true place of his church was on the ...