(How the 500-year-old Catholic Doctrine of Discovery encouraged colonization.) In New Orleans, the Catholicism practiced by French and Spanish settlers melded with the Catholicism and spiritual ...

When Father Tony Ricard watched the new pope deliver his first address to the faithful Thursday in St. Peter’s Square, he ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — More than 130 Catholic cardinals on Wednesday began the secretive, centuries-old ritual ... the Sistine Chapel later on Wednesday to begin voting to elect a new pope.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic ... old dean of the college, Re, prayed for cardinals to find the wisdom, counsel and understanding to elect a worthy ...

The most senior members of the Catholic Church ... Vatican's Sistine Chapel on Wednesday for the start of the secretive, centuries-old ritual known as the conclave to pick a new pontiff.