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 ...

Pope Francis, writes Marxist scholar Michael Löwy, demonstrated an uncharacteristic sympathy toward left-wing thought, even ...

The late Pope Francis had a major impact in shaping the world and one professional sports team intends to honor the Pontiff ...

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

For years, traditionalists raged at Pope Francis' liberal approach. The question now is whether his successor would walk the ...

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

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 ...