More than 180 cardinals met on Monday to set the date that they will gather and begin the process of selecting the man who ...

How popes have gone from distant icons to complex characters on screen, revealing as much about filmmakers as about faith ...

"Whether on the issues of abortion, the end of life, marriage for priests, the ordination of women, or homosexuality, which ...

Crucial meetings will be held this week in which contenders begin jockeying in earnest for the job of leading the Roman ...

Previous conservative Popes had sternly condemned the sin, but Francis tended to treat the offering of compassionate charity ...

TWO hundred thirty thousand — that is the estimate of the crowd that massed at the Piazza di San Pietro and the streets of ...

The Italian has been handcrafting liturgical vestments for over six decades, used by bishops, cardinals, and even by John ...

With the death of Jorge Bergoglio, or Pope Francis, we lose a rare leader who, in an Italy governed by neofascists and in an ...

As the Church prepares for a conclave to elect a new pope, tens of thousands of young pilgrims who traveled to Rome for the ...

Saturday’s majestic open-air funeral for Pope Francis is now followed by election of the next pope by the College of ...

In front of hundreds of world leaders attending the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday, Italian Cardinal Giovanni Battista ...

The Catholic Church is currently undergoing a nine-day period of mourning and prayer for the late Pope Francis, but everyone ...