Asked to respond to the criticism, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that, “President Trump flew to Italy to ...

Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini is taking the same spirit to his first conclave that's guided his decades-long front-line ministry among the migrants, poor and Indigenous people in Guatemala's highlands — ...

Leading the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church. Location: Vatican City. There are no official candidates for the papacy, but ...

While Francis stacked the ranks with his cardinals, it is not necessarily the case that all of them will want to see the ...

The likely top candidate for the conservative wing of the College of Cardinals is Esztergom–Budapest Cardinal Peter Erdo, ...

Massa traces this strain in American Catholicism back to what’s been called the “comic opera heresy” of a fellow Jesuit, ...

Catholic cardinals on Monday set May 7 as the start date for the conclave to elect Pope Francis’ successor, delaying the ...

By tradition, the conclave must begin 15–20 days after the death or resignation of the pope. Francis died on Monday, April 21 ...

A special Mass was also celebrated in St. Peter's Square on Sunday by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, until recently the Vatican's ...

After Pope Francis’s death at the age of 88, the process of electing the next pontiff will begin. Cardinal electors, the vast ...