I had my first taste of elections in the grade school classroom. We wrote out the ballots, the teacher read the names aloud, ...

Catholics around the world were skeptical at first about an American pope. But Pope Leo XIV’s multicultural and multilingual ...

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, a native of the Philippines, is known for his progressive stances, emphasis on social justice and affinity for people.

The trial of Jesus is portrayed on Philippine streets. Credit: Mark Akino Rooted in the Spanish colonial period ... not a replacement for it. Priests remind communities to participate in the ...

Black smoke was pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave ...

A few cardinals are seen as front-runners to succeed Pope Francis, yet many of the clerics who will vote have not made up ...

With a Vatican official calling out “extra omnes” and the door to the Sistine Chapel shutting, the conclave to elect Pope ...

IMUS, Philippines: Philippine Cardinal Luis Antonio ... his nearly two decades in his hometown diocese -- first as a priest, then later bishop -- and why many former parishioners openly root ...

Spanish and German. He also studied theology and philosophy in Bruges, Belgium, and in Rome. Arborelius has opposed the ordination of women as priests but did suggest in 2017 that a college of ...