As different as a papal election is from every other kind of election in the modern world, each conclave nonetheless has an ...

Thanks largely to the United States' unique civil justice system and robust free press, bishops here have been forced to ...

Legislation that would require clergy to report child abuse or neglect in Washington state was signed into law by Democratic ...

The voting is highly choreographed and time-consuming to avoid any possibility of fraud or doubt about the results.

The chimney on the Sistine Chapel is up, and voting to elect the next pope will begin on Wednesday afternoon, May 7. Here is ...

The universal church is on full display during the waiting-for-white-smoke period. Watchers who gather at St. Peter's Square ...

At least one U.S. bishop said President Donald Trump needs to apologize, and even his closest prelate in the church, Cardinal ...

A close-up shows Cardinal Baldassare Reina, papal vicar of Rome, with his hands folded in prayer during the Mass on the third ...

And then there's Bishop Robert Barron. Barred from the conclave because he lacks a red hat, Barron was summoned to the White ...

For the second Sunday in a row, the balcony from where the pope prays the traditional Angelus remained empty. An unusual ...

In a workshop that's a stone's throw from St. Peter's Basilica, 86-year-old Raniero Mancinelli has been sewing cassocks for ...

The universal church is on full display during the waiting-for-white-smoke period. Watchers who gather at St. Peter's Square ...