And they will determine whether the adage "fat pope, thin pope" holds true or whether the next leader of the Catholic Church ...

Pastor of former OKC First Church of the Nazarene and a denomination leader each discuss what led to church's vote to cut ...

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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis changed the face of the modern papacy more than any predecessor by shunning much of its pomp and privilege, but his attempts to make the Catholic Church more ...

Becoming pope was a big deal for a cardinal and his family. Leading candidates known as papabili (pope-ables) began ...

A look back at the day in 2019 when LDS Church President Russell Nelson met with Pope Francis in a historic audience for both faiths.

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St. Mary's City is a colonial town located in St. Mary's County ... "So it truly is the founding place of the modern Catholic ...

Inverness is the gateway to the Highlands, a rugged, windswept region of northwest Scotland. The small but thriving city, one ...

It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that ended the longest papal election in the ...

The ailing pope was short of breath, sitting beneath a cherished painting of Mary, Untier of Knots, as he worked through a last-ditch plan to disentangle the finances of one of the world’s most opaque ...