When the cardinals gather in the Pauline Chapel and process to the Sistine Chapel on May 7 to begin the process of choosing a ...

A papal conclave blends the political and the spiritual, cardinals and theologians say. Here, in Catholic belief, is how the ...

1317 Confirmation, like Baptism, imprints a spiritual mark or indelible ... doni Spiritus Sancti" (Be sealed with the Gift of the Holy Spirit.) in the Roman rite, or: Signaculum doni Spiritus ...