I was so touched by the brief yet beautiful blessing of Pope Francis. He appeared in his wheelchair and declared “Buona ...

The election of a first North American pontiff came after the death of the first Latin American pope and signaled a ...

Black smoke poured from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, signifying that the cardinals did not elect a new ...

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 ...

Bishops often imposed such restrictions — with varying levels of enforcement and typically without warning the public — until ...

Nuns don't have a vote in the election of a pope. But nearly 900 superiors of the world's female Catholic orders gathered in ...

Although Catholics “petitioned and begged” Francis to allow the ordination of women and married men to the priesthood ... times,” adding the all-male hierarchy “tragically supports ...

Even though cardinals don’t campaign for the job of pope, there are always front-runners going into a conclave to choose the ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago has been elected pope, becoming the first American to lead the Roman Catholic ...

A priest who helped organise Pope Francis's visit ... in past decades and also acknowledged that members of the Church's hierarchy had sought to cover up the sins of colleagues and failed to ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A popular saying in Vatican circles is that if you “enter a conclave as pope, you leave as a cardinal.” ...