Spreading lies about it hurts the cause of reaching a reasoned and just outcome. Some have objected to the lowering of Karmelo Anthony’s bail from $1 million to $250,000. But it was clearly excessive, ...

Outspoken on same-sex blessings and immigration, Robert Sarah of Guinea is a leading figure among conservative Catholic ...

ROME — Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini is taking the same spirit to his first conclave that’s guided his decades-long front-line ...

A frenzy of betting is underway as gamblers try to predict results of the upcoming conclave to pick Pope Francis’ successor.

Napoleon commissioned the sword, filled with classical motifs, after being elected as consul for life by the senate in 1802.

Pope Francis's 2020 encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, was a much-needed call for us to embrace the local and the unchosen.

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Pope Francis' tomb assures a pageantry of pilgrims to his memory, as the scandal-battered Catholic Church seeks high ground ...

The last Italian pope died in 1978. Now, among the papal candidates ahead of next week’s conclave, there are several Italian ...

A video features Barber, a civil rights activist and ordained minister, and others praying in April 2025 in opposition to the ...

Known by his peers as a serious theologian, scholar and educator, Erdő, 72, is a leading contender among conservatives. He ...