The Vatican is closing the Sistine Chapel to the public as part of its preparations for the conclave to elect the next pope ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals on Monday set May 7 as the start date for the conclave to elect Pope Francis' ...

The Mass will include prayer intentions for Pope Francis as well as a choir made up of parishioners from across the ...

Gangs have attacked another town in Haiti’s central region, killing at least four people, including an 11-year-old child, a ...

The Rev. Burke Masters of St. Isaac Jogues Catholic Church in Hinsdale said the Melissa and Brett Lane attended his church ...

Pope Francis taught the church that the magisterium finds its clarity not merely in propositions but in acts of mercy.

Members of New Jersey’s Supreme Court sounded skeptical at times about the effort of a Catholic diocese to stop the state ...

Catholic guilt, both on a personal and collective level, has found its eerie manifestation in Fréwaka — a film centred on the ...

Jesus ‘wants us to bring to him all mankind, especially all sinners, and immerse them in the ocean of his mercy so we can really be renewed as a nation, as a country.’ ...

It is certainly not a novelty. The 'papal betting pool' has always been part of the popular logic of the Church, and it was ...

The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term have been marked by policy moves that led to turbulence in both domestic and ...