Catholic Chicagoans gathered in churches, cheered from classrooms and celebrated from their homes as the historic decision was announced that a native son, Cardinal Robert Prevost, had been elected po ...

As cardinals from Myanmar to Malta ready themselves for the largest papal conclave in history, battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the Catholic Church. Pope Francis sought to drag ...

In its bid for drama, the film caricatures the Catholic Church and the men who lead it as political animals akin to the most ruthless politicians in Washington, D.C., London, or Brussels.

This previously devout cradle Catholic has lost her patience with a church that has sold its soul over a single issue. Truth Social/realDonaldTrump Along with most of the world, I saw the ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mich. — A special mass was held at the newly-renovated St. Joseph Catholic Church in downtown St. Joseph Thursday. Bishop Edward M. Lohse, of the Kalamazoo Diocese, blessed the more ...

The upcoming conclave to elect the successor to Pope Francis will be the largest in the history of the Catholic Church, with 133 cardinal electors expected to gather in the Sistine Chapel on May 7 ...

I was struck by Peggy Noonan’s blunt suggestion that we need a pope whose pontificate could later be summed up as: “The man who was in love with Jesus” (“What We Need in Pope Francis ...

It is the most diverse conclave in history. And experts say this is likely to affect not only the choice of pope but the future of the Catholic Church worldwide. For the first thousand years of ...

Beyond its impact on the Church, this shift in Catholicism’s center of gravity also raises existential questions about Europe itself — the cradle of Catholic theology and intellectual tradition.

“The Church has to govern two very different lived realities of being Catholic,” McGuire concluded. Capizzi said matters like these should not be at the forefront of how the pope should be ...

At stake is the direction of the Catholic Church, a 2,000-year-old institution with huge global influence but which is battling to adapt to the modern world and recover its reputation after the ...