Environmentalists have called on the pope to halt the chopping down of a tree destined for St. Peter’s Square this Christmas, ...

(Photo: Mossot/Wikimedia Commons) The Vatican announced October 21 the publishing date and title of Pope Francis's new encyclical, "Dilexit Nos" (“He Loved Us”), an encyclical on the human and ...

Remains of a church destroyed during anti-Christian violence in Odisha state, eastern India, in August 2008. (Photo by All India Christian Council / CC BY-SA 3.0) “If you don’t hear our voices ...

Every MLA’s name is on a list in the clerk’s office. Any member who doesn’t wish to be considered — there are good reasons not to want the job — must present the clerk with written notice asking to be ...

In a conclave in the Catholic Church, bishops gather to elect a new pope. Once a new leader is chosen, a plume of colored smoke is released into the sky ...

On the Granger Gauge of 1 to 10, “Conclave” is a provocative, ecclesiastical 8, playing in theaters.

After years of tension, news that Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has invited Pope Francis to visit the country may be a sign that relations between the Holy See and Ireland are returning to normal.

and then burned with a chemical to send either black smoke, meaning a stalemate, or white, signifying "habemus papam" − "we have a pope." ...

The head of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, set up by Pope Francis in 2014, said the Church was coming out of a "dark period" in which "Church leaders tragically failed ...

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Conclave. Conclave depicts a traditional Catholic practice through its use of different colors of smoke to signal updates to onlookers during an ...