First, those who embrace Pope Francis’ wide-ranging, modernising changes in the Catholic church. The reform-minded pope made ...

A Nigerian priest has shared a photo showing how orderly people behaved during the burial ceremony held for Pope Francis on ...

Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini is taking to his first conclave the same spirit that guided his decades-long front-line ministry ...

When Pope Francis died on Monday, governments around the world swiftly issued glowing tributes to the late Catholic leader ...

Where some Christians see great promise, others express great concern over recent activity on the national front pertaining ...

brought to completion his teaching on the Kingdom and more closely defined the sacramental and hierarchical structure of the Church. Through the Via Lucis, the faithful recall the central event of ...

As cardinals prepare for the largest papal conclave in history, battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the church ...

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

For Catholic fundamentalists, to break faith with the church hierarchy is to break faith with, well, the faith. A few separate from the church, either voluntarily or by ecclesiastical edict ...

Nowhere in the world is the Roman Catholic Church growing faster than in Africa, a continent Francis showered with attention. By Elian Peltier Reporting from Dakar, Senegal When Pope Francis ...