A plurality of the Catholic Church is in Latin America, at roughly 40% of the ... Pope Francis with a sacrilegious hammer-and-sickle crucifix, surely the strangest gift in the history of papal ...

More than 65 years later, I still remember the experience of being an altar boy reciting the entirety of the Catholic Mass in ...

Douthat: I agree, but taking that line required conservatives to become very particular about which kinds of things (statements, letters ... the Latin Mass at a time when every Catholic had ...

R obert Francis Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, made history on Thursday, May 8, when he was elected as the first ...

Cardinals in the secret conclave are entering a second day of discussions on Thursday after their first round of voting to ...

The new pontiff will be introduced in Latin with his chosen papal name and ... waving a Brazilian flag and another lifted a heavy crucifix into the air in jubilation. - 'Habemus Papam' - "It's ...

The new pontiff, who succeeds Argentine reformer Pope Francis, was introduced in Latin with his chosen papal ... flag and another lifted a heavy crucifix into the air in jubilation.

"I have one issue with the Catholic Church that I'm hoping they'll correct, and that is allowing women to become priests," she said, a crucifix around ... to reading Latin and German.

Dressed in a white robe with a gold border and a tall white miter, and holding a gold crucifix, Pope Leo delivered his first homily during which he spoke in his native English, as well as Latin ...

Wearing a white robe and holding a gold crucifix, the first American pontiff ... Francis, the first Latin American pope, appeared to have his eye on Prevost and saw him as his heir apparent ...