There are no official candidates for the papacy, but some cardinals are considered “papabile,” or possessing the ...

“Here comes everybody.” Thus did Irish novelist James Joyce describe the Catholic Church’s diversity. That might have served ...

Vatican City—Hundreds of thousands of mourners and world leaders packed St. Peter’s Square on Saturday for the funeral of ...

Sports betting can take a back seat this month because people are weighing the odds on who will become the next pope.

The life of Pope Francis, the first Latin American and first Jesuit to serve as the Roman Catholic Church’s pontiff, lasted ...

As in many Holy Weeks past, the environmental group EcoWaste Coalition lamented that many of the country’s most popular pilgrimage sites were littered with trash during ...

P ope Francis, the reform-minded Roman Catholic leader who guided the church through an era of crisis, died Monday, April 21, ...

How I would like a Church that is poor and for the poor,” Pope Francis said shortly after becoming the leader of 1-billion-plus Catholics worldwide in 2013. This assertion ...

EcoWaste stressed the need for reform as it found Quiapo Church in Manila, the Divine Mercy shrine ... use plastics] need to be phased out in favor of alternative modes of product delivery systems ...