Despite hopes for potential sainthood, in Argentina, "we cry because we did not fully understand or appreciate the extent of ...

Two of the eligible cardinal electors have informed the Holy See that they will not be able to participate in the conclave ...

The decision was made during a closed-door meeting of the College of Cardinals and announced at a media briefing at the ...

Gen Z has typically taken to memes to make sense of crises and current events. These memes serve a way of making Catholicism ...

The over-80 cardinals can be part of the preconclave meetings called general congregations. Those are daily meetings in which ...

Cardinal François-Xavier Bustillo of Ajaccio, France, is surrounded by members of the media as he approaches the Petriano ...

In closed-door sessions called congregations, cardinals have given 70 speeches to their brethren. The conclave is likely to ...

Standing alongside the icon of Mary that Francis often visited in that basilica during his pontificate, the cardinal prayed ...

The cardinals were invited to visit the pope's tomb and pray vespers, which was presided over by Cardinal Rolandas Makrickas, ...

NCR's Michael Sean Winters writes, reminds us that Jesus did not only confront injustice and sin but death itself, and he did ...

Pope Francis, history's first pontiff from the Global South, has died at age 88 following a monthslong respiratory illness, ...

In the span of about 12 hours, the St. Peter's Square went from bursting at the seams with nearly 250,000 people crammed in ...