The fundamental Christian message emphasizes compassion, and the Catholic Church over the centuries has played a vital role ...

Cardinals who traveled to Rome for Francis’ funeral will be meeting regularly this week ahead of the conclave as they start ...

Cardinals will begin picking a new Roman Catholic leader on May 7. Here's what Bishop John Dolan says about the conclave process's potential outcome.

Like the other ceremonies and traditions that accompany the advent of a new pope, his newly chosen name will be imbued with ...

The movie "Conclave" paints a mostly accurate picture of the Roman Catholic process of electing a new pope, save for an ...

The gleaming colonnade of St. Peter's Square provides a majestic backdrop as four men wait for a free dinner on a terrace in ...

More than 65 years later, I still remember the experience of being an altar boy reciting the entirety of the Catholic Mass in ...

At least one U.S. bishop said President Donald Trump needs to apologize and even his closest prelate in the church, Cardinal ...

The folklore of the prophecy of St. Malachy says that Pope Francis may be the very last pontiff. Historians say that's ...

On a balmy night outside Manila’s Baclaran church, Gerald Concepcion, 32, and his fellow devotees were decorating a float of ...

All Roman Catholics are Christians, but not the other way around, differing in beliefs about the sacraments, the pope, the ...

Pope Francis, the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, will be mourned and buried at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major ...