The devout spend the entire month of Sravana in the worship of Shiva culminating in the Sravana Purnima on Raksha Bandhan day Shiva is beyond the Gunas as His trident represents all three sattva rajas ...

The world of Donald Trump, Elon Musk and similar believers in transactional reality has created a moral vacuum. There is an ...

A few days ago, with a sunny, cool morning to spare in Ribadeo, I wandered the streets and struck up a conversation with a ...

Chicagoans have predictably reacted in grandiose fashion with humor and genuine affection for South Sider Robert Prevost as he begins heading the Catholic Church.

Never in my life did I think that someone that I knew was going to be the pope. I mean, I sat at a kitchen table and drank ...

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, signaling that a new pope—the 267th leader of the Catholic Church—had been ...

Black smoke again billowed out of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, the second day of the conclave, indicating that no new pontiff has been chosen after the second or third ballots.

Asked whether it was unexpected for an American to be elected, Father Reese said: “Oh yeah, shocking.” Robert Prevost, who has just been announced as the new pope, will be known as Pope Leo XIV.

VATICAN CITY (AP ... when a top cardinal utters the words “Habemus Papam!” — Latin for “We have a pope!” — from the loggia of the basilica. The cardinal then reads the winner ...

Latin for “We have a pope ... Did someone get sick or need translation help? Did the papal preacher take a long time to deliver his meditation before the voting began? “They probably need more time,” ...