As Berlin reconsiders its controversial secularism policy, Europe continues to debate the limits of religious expression in public life.

According to the rules established by St. John Paul II, only cardinals under 80 years old will participate in the vote to ...

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In summary, Pope Francis broke many taboos, opened the Catholic Church to the world, and spread a message of compassion ...

Even after the conclusion of the dramatic events depicted in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, there is still so much more ...

The age limit for electors was introduced by Pope Paul VI in the 1970s and was confirmed by Pope John Paul II’s 1996 apostolic constitution Universi Dominici Gregis. The five oldest cardinals eligible ...

Lebanon, shattered by five decades of lawlessness, military occupation and the dominance of armed non-state actors, now has a ...

Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llavera, the retired archbishop of Valencia, Spain, who will turn 80 in ... RNS and reading our independent news about religion. At a time like this, when the world ...

Nonfiction: A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian brilliantly reimagines the enduring conflict between the two Americas.

This is a globally significant event that is making headlines beyond religious circles: all eyes will be focused not only on ...