Ten U.S. cardinals are among those who will gather in Rome to elect a successor to Pope Francis, who died Monday.

One in 5 of the world’s Catholics now live in Africa, and African cardinals will be key in determining Francis’s successor at ...

St. James Cathedral was a beacon for Catholics on Saturday as they gathered in large numbers to honor Pope Francis, who was ...

Cardinal Robert Walter McElroy, a native Californian and former leader of San Diego Catholic, is a candidate for the papacy.

It’s hard not to love him,” Father Michael Ryan said of Pope Francis during the vigil at St. James Cathedral. “He represented the best of who we are and who we want to be.” ...

As an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Washington, appointed by Pope Francis in late 2022, Evelio Menjivar-Ayala is ...

They originally had planned to be in Rome for the canonization of the first millennial saint, but pivoted to honor the ...

Once a towering figure in the Catholic Church ... was named archbishop of Newark in 1986 and went on to lead the Archdiocese of Washington in 2001, a position he held until 2006.

The body of Pope Francis was moved Wednesday morning to St. Peter’s Basilica for three days of public mourning for an ...

Catholics in western Washington and around the world are in a period of mourning following the death of Pope Francis - but ...

Here are five interesting facts about Cardinal Kevin Farrell, camerlengo of the Apostolic Chamber who will organize a ...