Cardinals set for more talks after black smoke signals no pope chosen on first day - The smoke signals that the 133 cardinals ...

As the conclave to elect the next pope begins, Pietro Parolin has emerged as the betting favorite to succeed Pope Francis, ...

The United States is the home country for 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope. That’s more than any ...

The people who founded the United States embraced the First Amendment to keep the government out of religious life and to keep religion out of government.

At least one U.S. bishop said President Donald Trump needs to apologize, and even his closest prelate in the church, Cardinal ...

More cardinals from more countries than ever will gather in the Sistine Chapel starting Wednesday to choose a new pope at a ...

Although Fitton's school is long gone, its name, Mount Saint James, is often invoked in references to the hillside campus. By ...

St. Ignatius Catholic Church in Southeast Portland celebrated a memorial Mass for Pope Francis on Wednesday night.

A simplified papal funeral will make a fitting farewell for a pontiff who just three days after his surprise election ...

Clement IX, born Giulio Rospigliosi, is the most recent pope to be buried at St. Mary Major, having been laid to rest there ...

The parishioners of Ss. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church have been granted a reprieve from the church’s ordered merger ...

James Przystanski ... that we thought the Catholic church would never go towards." The Pope's death on Easter Monday came only a day after he appeared in the Vatican's St Peter's Square to greet ...