I never thought a battle over good and evil would play out in my lifetime between my church and my country – or that it would restore my faith in the church. But thanks to President Donald Trump and ...

Pope Francishas shown a "slight improvement", is alert and got out of bed to eat breakfast on Thursday, the Vatican said, as ...

The pope looms so large in everyday Italian life that there are lots of expressions that make light of even a dark event like ...

Pope Francis has been diagnosed with double pneumonia after being hospitalised last week. The Vatican said the 88-year-old's ...

The Catholic Church is almost 2,000 years old, and over the centuries, the protocol for papal funerals has been codified and ...

The 251 people, mostly Israelis, were taken hostage by Hamas and dragged back into Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023, when the militant ...

The method the Catholic Church uses to select their leader has remained virtually unchanged for the last 800 years ...

The process of electing a new pope follows rules and rituals that have been followed, and sometimes tweaked, since the 13th ...

Cardinals, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), are bishops and Vatican officials from all ...

The election of a new pope is a rigorous process involving a series of rituals that unfold in stages. First, there is the ...

The pope is susceptible to lung infections after he developed pleurisy as an adult and had part of a lung removed at age 21.

With Pope Francis’ health in question, speculation grows about how the Catholic Church would elect his successor.