White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, ...

As the papal conclave gets underway in Vatican City, Holy Cross Catholic Church pastor Father Noah Carter recalls his ...

The Chicago-born pontiff is the first American to lead the Catholic Church, and while his positions on some of the church’s ...

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of ...

Whether a Catholic prelate’s view can be described as progressive or traditional depends entirely on the issue at hand, cautions one ... a staff with a cross or a crucifix at its end.

chair of the department of Catholic studies at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. “On the other hand, I do think that his approach to the United States in terms of diplomacy and other ...

A sacrament is an outward sign ... cross of Calvary as much as those in the early first century. This is possible because he who died is now risen and sits on the throne of glory at the right hand ...