Many Indigenous Catholics saw an ally in Pope Francis who championed their causes, asked forgiveness for the church’s ...

At a recent service in the remote southern Mexican community of Simojovel, Catholic and Mayan symbols mingled at the altar as ...

Jeff Hood, a priest living in North Little Rock, has witnessed nine executions. As a spiritual adviser to men on death row, he befriended each of the prisoners. The executions haunt him. He has ...

In Detroit, traditionalist Catholics were bracing for a crackdown. The promise of change in Rome offers them a sliver of hope ...

A cardinal (from the Latin "cardinalis" or principal) is a high dignitary of the Catholic Church chosen by the pope to assist ...

Catholic and Mayan symbolism mingled at a simple altar where deacon Juan Pérez Gómez officiated service in Tsotsil.

At Masses in Rome’s housing projects and in the heart of its tourist district, the faithful prayed Sunday for the upcoming ...

As hundreds of worshippers gathered on Sunday morning for the annual religious service at the ruins of the sixteenth-century ...

The movie "Conclave" paints a mostly accurate picture of the Roman Catholic process of electing a new pope, save for an ...

Napoleon Pelletier, a French Canadian, led the founding of St. Anne Shrine in the 1920s, and remnants of the Catholic enclave ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost joins the conclave Wednesday to pick Pope Francis' successor. His rise in the faith began at a South ...

Vatican workers have installed the simple stove in the Sistine Chapel where ballots will be burned during the upcoming ...