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

Pope Francis has been known for his down-to-earth leadership, support of marginalized communities and interreligious dialogue ...

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

As Pope Francis, the oldest pope in over a century, continues to decline in health, speculation is percolating as to who will ...

The feast of the Chair has ancient origins. Some of the earliest complete Christian calendars date to the sixth century, and ...

Francis, who lost part of a lung to a respiratory infection in his youth and has been plagued by ailing health recently, last ...

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

The 1.2-acre site has been placed on the market and is listed on property website Zoopla. The land is available for a price of £695,000 as freehold. A description of the site states: "The property is ...

John 1:42 Some Christians deny that the Pope, as successor of St ... the Church. This challenge for a Catholic Christian should begin with these Gospel verses: And I tell you, you are Peter ...

Pope Francis passed another peaceful night in hospital, "got up and had breakfast in his armchair", the Vatican said Thursday ...

The Catholic Encyclopedia describes the situation this way: "Within the Catholic Church ... government of the Roman pontiff, the divinely appointed successor of St. Peter in the Primacy.

Pope Francis, 88, spent a third day in a Roman hospital on Sunday, with the Vatican saying that he was in a stable condition and that his treatment was ongoing after he was admitted with a respiratory ...