Among the roughly 1.4 billion Catholics around the world, many are keenly anticipating the upcoming conclave at the Vatican at which members of the College of Cardinals will elect a successor to Pope ...

The next pope faces the challenge of leading a global Catholic flock of 1.4 billion, balancing faith with sharp governance, ...

G.K. Chesterton wrote of St. Francis of Assisi, “But after all, this man was a man and not half a dozen men. What seems ...

They are trying to identify someone who could follow Pope Francis and make the 2,000-year-old Catholic Church credible and ...

Cardinal Frank Leo, the 53-year-old archbishop of Toronto, told Gerard O’Connell that he does not think age or nationality is ...

The announcement “Habemus Papam” — “We have a pope" — from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica is followed first by the ...

But papal betting has a long history. Roman banking houses were taking bets as far back as 1503. Alessandro Damasceni Peretti ...

Anticipation is growing ahead of May 7th, when the papal conclave processions are scheduled to begin. "Everyone's just waiting for Wednesday. Everyone's just kind of pins and needles," said Chandler ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, has emerged as an intriguing possibility ahead of ...

At Masses in Rome’s housing projects and in the heart of its tourist district, the faithful prayed Sunday for the upcoming ...

If we were put in a time machine and transported to first century Rome, freedom would look very different from what we have come to know.

New global data shows what makes for a flourishing life. It isn’t what we think. The Global Flourishing Study has surprising ...