The proportion of cardinal electors from Africa and the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America, and countries in ...

Following the death of Pope Francis at the age of 88, a papacy expert elaborated on the process for electing a new pope in ...

COMMENTARY: Prioritizing the margins, he traveled to overlooked places, calling the Church to embrace its missionary mandate.

When conservative Pope Benedict XVI stepped down in 2013, citing frailty of body, the Catholic world braced for a like-minded ...

Pope Francis was the 266th pontiff, having taken over from Pope Benedict in 2013. Francis made history as the first pope ...

The life of Pope Francis, the first Latin American and first Jesuit to serve as the Roman Catholic Church’s pontiff, lasted ...

Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope and the first pope from the Americas, left an impact on the Catholic Church and on the ...

This conclave is going to be crucial for deciding the future direction of the Roman Catholic Church, and the field of ...

were an inspiration,” the Pacific Conference of Churches, which includes Catholic and Protestant churches, added in a ...

COMMENTARY: I think of his humor, his humility, and his deep, unwavering attentiveness to those before him. More than ...

His death ends a historic chapter for the Catholic Church. The first Latin American pope, he opened the doors of his faith to ...

In the Philippines, through a visit, episcopal appointments, and devotional actions among others, the pontiff set the tone ...