Nuns don't have a vote in the election of a pope. But nearly 900 superiors of the world's female Catholic orders gathered in ...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Bishop Robert Barron have been tapped to serve on a new presidential commission on religious ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Cardinals enter a conclave on Wednesday to choose a new pope, leader of the world's 1.4 billion ...

A few cardinals are seen as front-runners to succeed Pope Francis, yet many of the clerics who will vote have not made up ...

After a long period of declining health which saw an increasingly debilitated Francis struggling to hold onto life, it was the demonic visitation of US ...

He was ordained a priest in the Jesuit order in 1969. From 1973-79 he was ... and appointed more women to senior posts in its hierarchy. However, he was also viewed as a haphazard leader, often ...

Before that, Tobin led the Redemptorists, an international Catholic order with 6,000 members known for their missionary work. Among other roles in church hierarchy ... a colorful life for a ...

He was ordained a priest in the Jesuit order in 1969. From 1973-79 he was ... and appointed more women to senior posts in its hierarchy. However, he was also viewed as a haphazard leader, often ...

Life under Argentina’s dictatorship His six-year tenure as the head of the order in Argentina coincided with the country’s murderous 1976-83 dictatorship, when the military launched a campaign against ...