Francis moderated the authoritarianism of his predecessors but more change is needed; the cardinals must elect someone who ...

It is natural to compare a pope to his predecessors. But many of the comparisons being made now betray an ideological edge ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Predict who the next pope will be at your peril. An old Italian saying warns against putting faith, ...

His critics were fellow clergy as well as elected officials in the ascendant wing of the American Catholic political realm.

Most are governed by a constitution known as Universi Dominici Gregis (Of the Lord's Whole Flock) approved by Pope John Paul II in 1996 and ... for visitors in Rome to view, as was the case ...