Will the adage 'fat pope, thin pope' bear out as cardinals pick a successor to Pope Francis in the May 7 conclave?

Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline of Marseille, France — considered a contender to be the next pope — has been jokingly referred to ...

Majorities want the church to allow use of birth control and IVF, and to permit priests to bless same-sex couples. But views ...

Ultimately, the most important message that we can share with children during the time of a papal conclave is one of trust.

For nearly 180 years, papal conclaves have chosen a new pope in three to five days. In centuries past, they've taken a lot ...

From Viking ruins to Filipino families, a small Catholic community brings new life to the Church’s oldest frontier.

A Catholic scholar explains every step of the conclave process that will determine the successor to the late Pope Francis.

For the good of Pope Francis’s soul, and for the good of the Catholic Church, Catholics must not gloss over the damage of the ...

Here is the complete list of 266 Popes from the past to present. Most recently, Pope Francis led the Catholic Church from ...

Pope Francis became the church’s 266th in 2013 when the papal conclave elected him after the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI ...

The Supreme Court heard arguments this week in Mahmoud v. Taylor, in which parents from Montgomery County, Maryland, ...

The death of Pope Francis has billions wondering who will succeed him – and what direction he will take the Catholic Church.