When a pope dies or resigns, the Catholic Church follows an ancient, secretive process called the conclave to elect his ...

The Catholic Church — the role of the papacy in particular — first caught my attention when I was a semi-lapsed Protestant attending a quintessentially secular, Marxist-leaning university in Boston.

Vincent Nichols, 79, the Archbishop of Westminster since 2009 and a cardinal since 2014, has led the Church in England and ...

Nowhere in the world is the Roman Catholic Church growing faster ... Image A picture of Pope Francis hanging on a church in the parish of St. Esprit in Goma last week.Credit ...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments April 30 in a potential landmark case involving a proposed Oklahoma Catholic school ...

The upcoming conclave to elect the successor to Pope Francis will be the largest in the history of the Catholic Church ... cardinals — the limit set by St. John Paul II in his 1996 apostolic ...

School choice advocates rally as the Supreme Court hears St. Isidore, a case that could allow public funds for religious ...

A special Mass will be held at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Charleston to pray for the repose of the soul of Pope ...

Religious sisters gather for the Mass on the eighth day of the "novendiali," nine days of mourning for Pope Francis in St. Peter ... the leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

It may surprise most people to know that there are many different rites within the Catholic ... Latin or Roman rite. This is by far the largest rite in the Church. It was founded by St. Peter ...

Landry described the pope as the Catholic Church’s “chief ... “We now pray together for someone to lead the Church’s worldwide fishing expedition that began when Jesus told St. Peter he was making him ...

A flock of eight chickens have become the newest members of an Oxford primary school. St John Fisher Primary School in ...