Since the birth of the modern environment movement in the 1970s, every pope has turned attention toward matters of ecology — ...

Invoking the help of the Holy Spirit and recognizing that millions of people all over the world were praying for them, 133 ...

As people watched the papal election process unfold, advocates for issues including female clergy expressed hopes and fears ...

At Mass before the conclave that will elect the next pope, the dean of the College of Cardinals urged his brothers to choose ...

The name "Franciscus" is seen engraved on the tomb of Pope Francis inside the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome. The interletter spacing, or kerning, of the engraving has come under scrutiny from ...

Mario García is senior adviser for news design and adjunct professor at Columbia University School of Journalism and the CEO and founder of García Media. He has redesigned more than 750 publications ...

NCR analyzed the biographies, background, articles, speeches, homilies and media interviews of members of the College of ...

As 133 cardinals enter the Sistine Chapel to begin voting for a new pope, the church's problems and perplexities remain bigger than the sum of the questions posed in the days since Francis died.

On May 7, in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel, the conclave for the election of the new pope — the Catholic Church's most secret ...

Many mourners flocking to the Basilica of St. Mary Major to view the tomb of Pope Francis have pointed out one flagrant error ...

Thanks largely to the United States' unique civil justice system and robust free press, bishops here have been forced to ...

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