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

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

“I believe the Holy Spirit always intervenes in the choosing of the next pope,” the Rev. Halmar Adolis Calix, a priest from ...

Invoking the help of the Holy Spirit and recognizing that millions of people all over the world were praying for them, 133 ...

Then, shortly after, the holy father will come out ... “I have no preference,” he said. “Whoever the Holy Spirit decides, that’ll be who the pope will be, and I’ll be happy with ...

That discernment "is the process of the conclave," he said. "And that's very much where the prayer and the influence of the Holy Spirit (comes in), because the Holy Spirit not only gives us eyes to ...

The day before you begin the Ten-Day Devotion, which is the eve of the glorious Ascension of our divine Redeemer, you must prepare yourself by making a firm resolution to live an interior life and ...