The new pope, Leo XIV, has this in common with many of his peers in the Catholic hierarchy: He’s been in positions of ...

As the papal conclave gets underway in Vatican City, Holy Cross Catholic Church pastor Father Noah Carter recalls his experience studying there as a seminarian during the 2013 election of Pope Francis ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday begin the secretive, ...

In the Catholic Church ... which is not within the hierarchy of the Church,” she said, asking her surname to be withheld. “It [women as deacons or priests] would denaturalise the institution ...

Zuppi, 69, came up as a street priest in the image of Francis ... In that job he would have kept in regular contact with the Catholic hierarchy in the part of the world that counts still counts ...

Small nations and states will seek their place under the sun, while the great powers will demand that they renounce their moral wealth—above all, their ...

In Peru, Pope Leo XIV is known as the saintly missionary who waded through mud after torrential rains flooded the region, ...