I have long forsaken my religious upbringing, but an Italian mass the day after the Papal funeral? It’s like Italy’s Mayhem ...

The Chicago-born pontiff is the first American to lead the Catholic Church, and while his positions on some of the church’s ...

As the papal conclave gets underway in Vatican City, Holy Cross Catholic Church pastor Father Noah Carter recalls his ...

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, ...

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful ...

Whether a Catholic prelate’s view can be described as progressive or traditional depends entirely on the issue at hand, cautions one ... a staff with a cross or a crucifix at its end.

chair of the department of Catholic studies at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. “On the other hand, I do think that his approach to the United States in terms of diplomacy and other ...

Priests made the sign of the cross ... contact with the Catholic hierarchy in the part of the world that counts the most Catholics and who clearly would have had a hand in his election.