Adherents are reviving old practices and growing more assertive in the battle for the future of the Church—and the nation.

Longtime Vatican observers say that along with Francis’s radical refocusing of Church priorities came a hierarchical overhaul ...

The word itself predates Christianity, but the conclave with its secretive deliberations and ancient trappings still captures ...

The Most Reverend Dr Mathew Kwasi Gyamfi, President of the Ghana Catholic Bishop rsquo;s Conference, Monday eulogised Pope ...

Condolences are flooding in from across the world after the death of Pope Francis on Monday, with west-central Illinoisans ...

Pope Francis, history's first pontiff from the Global South, has died at age 88 following a monthslong respiratory illness, ...

For more than 400 years, Catholic and Orthodox churches have used different ways to determine the date of Easter. But this ...

The new pope was broadcasting a shift in tone and priorities: a Catholic Church less focused ... a mark as his revisioning of the Church's role in the modern world. "He turned the Vatican inside ...

While firmly part of Italy for more than a century, influences from that rich and complicated past can be seen in the ...

Few could have predicted that a comment Pope Francis made during a 2018 visit to Chile would blow up into the biggest crisis ...

Among Pope Francis' final words was a thank you to the nurse who had helped him surprise crowds in St. Peter's Square with a ...

Close to the most poorest and to migrants, Pope Francis reconciled a segment of the Italian left with the papacy, while ...