The new pope said he would be guided by a key document that his predecessor wrote listing the church’s priorities, including ...

The pope also has a more direct role on everyday Americans, in the sense that he is the head of a church followed by 20 ...

As Catholics, our arms will be wide open to the world. We will accompany the world. We will live in the world.

The papal election is making headlines in Switzerland today. And could a direct rail link between Switzerland and the UK soon become reality?

Incoming Pope Leo XIV faces what some call the most-challenging environment for religion in China since Mao Tse-tung.

To discuss the implications of Robert Prevost’s election as pope, for both the church and for the world’s 1.4 billion ...

This article is the third and final of a trilogy about the coordinated attacks by suicide bombers on the Easter Sunday of 21 ...

As dusk fell over the Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral-Basilica in Hagåtña on Thursday, Guam’s Catholic community gathered in solemn prayer and remembrance of Pope Francis, who died Monday at ...

Over the course of a day and a half, the more than 130 members of the College of Cardinals had come to a decision on who ...

The Swiss Guard, the pope’s iconic bodyguards, look ceremonial but in the pageantry of the Renaissance-style uniform lies the ...

There is a famous quote attributed to then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1997, in comments to a Bavarian television station.

Nuns don’t have a vote in the election of a pope. But nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female Catholic orders gathered in ...