From the last two-story outhouse in the U.S. to an actual fork in the road, here are New York's top roadside attractions — ...

Visitors have been able to step into a reconstructed 17th-century Catholic church in Maryland for the first time – an opportunity over 320 years in the making. Historic St. Mary's City ...

Instead he fashioned a profoundly reformist papacy, deeply divisive within the Roman Catholic ... for the church, badly needed — a man who saw clearly that a new century had dawned and that ...

President Trump stocked his cabinet with conservative Catholics, and elevated Mr. Vance as vice president, a Catholic convert whose views on church doctrine are deeply enmeshed with his political ...

"His election in 2013 will be seen as a kind of tectonic shift in the life of the Church," Michael Sean Winters, a longtime writer for the National Catholic Reporter told Newsweek. Upon his ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, an Argentinian son of Italian immigrants who became Pope Francis, turned out to be a consistently surprising pontiff who forced his Roman Catholic Church to look beyond its ...

This process is called a conclave, and it is how the Roman Catholic Church chooses its next pope after a previous pope dies or retires. Here’s what you need to know about the process.

Pope Francis, the first Latin American and 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, died at the age of 88 on April 21. Pope Francis, the first Latin American and 266th pope of the Roman Catholic ...

As a scholar of global Catholicism, I am especially interested in how this will be the most diverse conclave in the history of the Catholic church ... a 13th-century mystic known for his ...

Francis’ 2013 election was a nod to the fact that in 2010, Pew Research Center found that 39% of Catholics worldwide came from Latin America and the Caribbean, far outstripping the 24% of ...