Here’s a look at some of the leading papal contenders, with the proviso that favorites don’t typically end up getting the nod ...

As cardinals gather in Rome this week to select the next pope, global news networks covering every twist and turn will be ...

The Jerusalem and Sweden branches of the Vatican’s Caritas charitable federation released photos of the repurposed vehicle on ...

What the world’s Indigenous Catholics don’t want to lose with the death of the first pontiff from the Southern Hemisphere: ...

G.K. Chesterton wrote of St. Francis of Assisi, “But after all, this man was a man and not half a dozen men. What seems ...

Although estranged from his own religious order for more than two decades, Pope Francis reconciled immediately after his ...

Mistakes were made, apparently. ‘Woe be unto the person who decided to do it the way that they did it,’ one expert says.

They are trying to identify someone who could follow Pope Francis and make the 2,000-year-old Catholic Church credible and ...

According to Universi Dominici Gregis, the apostolic constitution regulating the “sede vacante,” the College of Cardinals ...

The Conference of Women Religious India said that Pope Francis had given them "more strength, dignity and space in the church ...

Pope Francis donated one of his popemobiles to be used as a mobile health unit to serve the children of Gaza before he died, ...

A Yemeni gunman walks past paintings depicting rockets and scenes in solidarity with Gaza, displayed on a roadside fence in ...