With a patriarchy deeply rooted in tradition, women in the Catholic Church are split on the urgency - or even need - to ...

It's easy to be distracted by Trump's social media antics, which now go past the point of poor taste and have lapsed into the ...

Activists are fighting a church that wants to put the scandal behind it and a public that may be tiring of it.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the current bookmakers' favorite to be the next pope, is facing renewed scrutiny over a deal he made ...

Hailing from 70 countries across five continents, the group -- summoned following the death of Pope Francis on April 21 -- is ...

The oath, which explicitly forbids recording or disclosing anything from within the conclave, underscores the Church's ...

Shrouded in secrecy — that’s perhaps the most fitting description of the conclave that elects the next leader of the global ...

Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle is sometimes called the “Asian Francis” because of his infectious smile, easy laugh, and ...

The View co-host Ana Navarro called out President Donald Trump for posting a “disrespectful” and “disgusting” photo of ...

A Jerusalem cardinal who spent decades fostering interfaith ties among Christians, Jews and Muslims is a leading contender to ...

ROME (AP) — They don’t have a vote in the pope’s election, but nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female Catholic orders met in Rome on Monday to chart a course forward, a few miles from where ...

Cardinal Philippe Ouédraogo is facing exclusion from the conclave vote, as a lack of record-keeping has resulted in the ...