Ever since his graduation from Notre Dame Seminary and his ordination to the transitional diaconate last December, Deacon ...

Thanks to Jari Honora – a 2009 graduate of St. Augustine High School and a family historian in the Williams Research Center ...

Like most other Americans, Archbishop Gregory Aymond never believed an American cardinal could be elected pope.

Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, the Chicago-born prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops under Pope Francis, was elected the 267th ...

Welcome to the season when sneakers trade places with flip-flops and report-card jitters make way for mosquito bites and ...

Centuries of experience dealing with the death, or occasional resignation, of a pope has left the Church with thorough ...

The Easter Monday death of Pope Francis, with whom I coincidently share a birthday, reminded me of how intertwined my life ...

Regina Matrum award recipient, Jeanne Vath Ory, niece of former Birmingham Bishop Joseph Vath, was raised to serve God and ...

The cardinals who enter the Sistine Chapel May 7 to elect a new pope use smoke signals to communicate with the outside world.

Fascinating insights from Jari Honora, a genealogist with the Historic New Orleans Collection, about Pope Leo XIV's New Orleans Creole roots. His maternal grandparents were Creole Catholics of color i ...

St. John Paul II had the Domus Sanctae Marthae built primarily to house cardinals in simple comfort during a conclave.

In a world where children often have cell phones in their hands before they can read and write, the church has a particular ...