From the pulpit where he stood one day last week, Richard James Cardinal Cushing ... was the blessing of a new brick-and-concrete Roman Catholic church in a slum suburb of Lima.

HONG KONG (AP) — A 90-year-old Roman Catholic cardinal and five others in Hong Kong were fined after being found guilty Friday of failing to register a now-defunct fund that aimed to help people ...

NEW YORK — Timothy Cardinal Dolan, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for skipping out on Thursday’s Al Smith Dinner — saying she was ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected as the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church A short time after white smoke billowed from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel on the afternoon of Thursday ...

Presiding over the late Pope Francis' funeral on April 26 will be one of his key advisers and the head of cardinal electors tasked with selecting the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

Leo-Jozef Cardinal Suenens, 65, is Primate of Belgium and Archbishop of Malines-Brussels, one of the largest Roman Catholic dioceses in the world. Lately he has taken on another role as well ...

Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, and Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops of the Roman curia, ceased to be. Sitting in his place was Pope Leo XIV, Bishop of Rome, Pontiff – bridge builder ...

Being sealed off from the world in the conclave to choose the new Pope was "immensely peaceful", England and Wales's most senior Roman Catholic has told the BBC. Cardinal Vincent Nichols ...