Any male baptized in the Roman Catholic church is eligible to serve as pope. The conclave is highly secretive, and the candidates do not publicly campaign for the position. The pope is the leader ...

He said the church “understood well . . . and also assumed the risks” of such involvement. The confession, if truthful confirms long-held suspicions that Argentina’s Catholic hierarchy ...

There are a number of ways in which the shape of the physical church building reflects the beliefs of the people who attend that church: ...

As of 31 December 2020, the Catholic Church consisted of 2,903 dioceses or equivalent jurisdictions, each overseen by a bishop. The Pop is the Bishop of Rome who, in that role, has primacy among ...