Perhaps a revealing question is whether the church will continue the radical novelty Francis brought as a pope from a ...

As the Catholic Church prepares for the upcoming conclave, much attention is focused on a prominent candidate: Cardinal Luis ...

The youthful 67-year-old emerging as a favourite to be the next pope - Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle likes to be ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 Catholic cardinals are beginning the ...

There are no official candidates for the papacy, but some cardinals are considered “papabile.” That means they possess the ...

A papal conclave blends the political and the spiritual, cardinals and theologians say. Here, in Catholic belief, is how the ...

WATERLOO – Though just 11 miles of major metropolitan roads separate Cedar Falls High School and Columbus Catholic High School it has been more than a decade since they met in a girls’ tennis ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Thousands of people filed through the central aisle of St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their final respects to Pope Francis on Wednesday, the start of three days of public ...

Instead, the Vatican remains one of a dwindling number of countries – and the ... with the Vatican for decades over who gets to appoint Catholic bishops in China. Pope Francis had attempted ...

Pope Francis’s death on Monday launches the centuries-old Catholic ritual of mourning and ... according to The Washington Post. There are 17 cardinals from the U.S., four of which currently ...

From working as a bouncer at a Buenos Aires nightclub to presiding over the Vatican, the path Pope Francis forged as the leader of the Roman Catholic ... Bergoglio on Dec. 17, 1936, in Buenos ...