An earthquake in Croatia led to a chain of events that helped archaeologists recently discover an ancient Roman theater, officials say. Croatia’s Ministry of Culture and Media announced the find ...

The pope's Creole roots in New Orleans are a source of pride among the city's Black Catholics. But the revelation also ...

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 ...

VATICAN CITY — American Cardinal Robert F. Prevost was elected the 267th supreme pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday by the College of Cardinals, ending a two-day conclave in the ...

Norah O'Donnell is CBS News' senior correspondent and a 60 Minutes contributing correspondent. O'Donnell is also the host of CBS News 24/7's "Person to Person," where she brings interviews that go ...

Unpicking the crucifixion as a parable of unselfing, radical empathy, sacrifice and rebirth, they ignore the cross itself, apparently seeing it as a mere enabler, a favourite Roman killing instrument ...

In his short reign he commissioned a lantern for St Peter ... for the valid election of a Roman Pontiff”. It was also ordered that “no one approaches the Cardinal electors while they make ...

Peter Edwell receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Something tells me US president Donald Trump would love to be a Roman emperor. The mythology of unrestrained power with ...

Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church Silvano Maria Tomasi has called on Bangladesh Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus at his hotel. Cardinal Prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue ...

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.

Lulu Roman, a gospel singer and longtime star of country music variety show "Hee Haw," has died, a close friend confirmed to USA TODAY on April 24. She was 78. Roman died April 23, in Bellingham ...

The real-life dean is not a middle-aged man with sad eyes and a British accent, but a 91-year-old Italian who has spent most of his career serving in the Roman curia. The dean, Cardinal Giovanni ...