What will the new Pope be called? Immediately after accepting the election, the new Supreme Pontiff will be asked what name ...

Pope Francis died at 7:35 a.m. (Rome time) on Easter Monday, 21 April 2025 at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican’s ...

(Guests at his Fourth of July celebration in Paris, in 1778, stole cutlery as souvenirs ... Franklin thinks this a “detestable custom” and proposes what he calls “some reasonable alterations ...

The clergy would ‘drink the cup of bitterness ... Swabian peasants broke into Burg Liebenthann, a monastic fortress, and seized a small fortune. They stole the abbot’s bed (having first removed the ...

The conclave that begins Wednesday to elect a successor for Pope Francis is the first in 46 ½ years for which the Vatican ...

His critics were fellow clergy as well as elected officials in the ascendant wing of the American Catholic political realm. By Ruth Graham and Elizabeth Dias Ruth Graham and Elizabeth Dias report ...

and one that eventually set the Catholic Church on a new path of accountability for clergy sexual abuse. Francis was asked by a TV reporter about a Chilean bishop who had been accused by victims ...

Across the country, Catholic dioceses have found ways to trim or stall attorney general investigations into clergy sexual abuse and alleged cover-ups. In New Jersey, the state Supreme Court will ...