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Not only did Pope Francis value and promote the dignity of labor, he was someone who personally worked extremely hard, finding joy and rest in work itself, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández said at the ...

After the conclave begins, ballots will be burned to indicate the outcome to the outside world — black for no decision, white ...

Cardinals attend a Mass presided over by Cardinal Pietro Parolin in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican, on the second of nine ...

The story of the Rev. Hilarion Alfeyev captures how a once robust effort to bring Russian Orthodox Christianity and the ...

The head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, has died. We take a look at his legacy and how the church will choose the next ...