A popular saying in Vatican circles is that if you “enter a conclave as pope, you leave as a cardinal.”It implies the<a ...

Thousands of faithful gathered since from early hours of Sunday at Rome's Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major to pray and pay ...

One in 5 of the world’s Catholics now live in Africa, and African cardinals will be key in determining Francis’s successor at ...

The cardinals were invited to visit the pope's tomb and pray vespers, which was presided over by Cardinal Rolandas Makrickas, coadjutor archpriest of the basilica.

About 250,000 mourners in Vatican City fell into hushed silence on Saturday morning as the funeral for Pope Francis began.

The church is divided. The problem is to find the one who unites, not pretend that it isn’t divided,” one church historian ...

As a result of Francis’ expansion of the diversity of cardinals who will elect his successor, all that is certain about the ...

THE passing of Pope Francis has put the Catholic Church at a crossroads. Pope Francis left a deep imprint on a religious ...

TWO hundred thirty thousand — that is the estimate of the crowd that massed at the Piazza di San Pietro and the streets of ...

Pope Francis' successor will face a litany of challenges, from the place of women and the LGBTQ community in the Catholic ...

Images of Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky , hunched forward on simple chairs in the middle of St Peter's Basilica on ...

Guardian and New York Times readers will choke on their soy lattes to read someone of Jewish heritage state this, but here comes the truth bomb: To halt its alarming decline, the West must rediscover ...