A new pope will be selected to lead the Catholic Church following the death of Pope Francis. The pope is chosen during a ...

PIC1|The Roman Catholic Church ordained the largest number of priests at one time in the history of communist ... is somewhat frustrated by government restrictions on the hierarchy system within the ...

Pope Francis, whose time as head of the Catholic Church was noted for an everyman humility and outreach efforts to people of ...

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and lesbian faithful. Some wished he’d gone further.

Following the death or resignation of a pope, the camerlengo of the church, typically will take over as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church until a new pope is selected ...

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

Pope Francis’ transformative vision for the American church made it more open, but also energized conservative resistance ...

The death of Pope Francis has triggered a period of mourning in the Vatican and signals the start of a millennia-old process of picking a new pontiff.

ANALYSIS: Pope Francis changed a deeply traditional institution more than most observers could have imagined possible in only ...

The Vatican's political influence is often underestimated. The Roman Catholic church is the only religious body that is, at the same time, a sovereign political state—with ambassadors ...