Cardinal Robert Walter McElroy, a native Californian and former leader of San Diego Catholic, is a candidate for the papacy.

A Supreme Court victory for St. Isidore would enable opponents of charters and other forms of school choice to warn that government entanglement with religion inevitably brings intense disputes about ...

Pope Francis, who chose his papal name after the 13th-century figure St. Francis of Assisi, known as the patron saint of ...

The Catholic dioceses hoping to run the nation's first religious charter school say anti-Catholic bias was behind many states ...

During the Francis papacy, the role of women in the church emerged as a pressing priority, with Catholics across the globe calling for change.

When I was in elementary school, every Tuesday I would meet up with a group of fellow Catholic girls by the baseball field and walk to our weekly Catholic class. I was apathetic about the lessons ...

A simplified papal funeral will make a fitting farewell for a pontiff who just three days after his surprise election ...

While the pope was buried in Italy, people from all over the world are feeling a great sense of loss with his passing.

Saturday’s funeral and burial of Pope Francis mark the beginning of nine days of official mourning at the Vatican, with ...

St. John died in a building behind the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral on Capitol Hill. The room where he died is a ...

Who was the American who did the first reading at Francis’ funeral Mass? From conclave to camerlengo, here are key terms used in the papal transition. Francis is buried in a place of solace for ...