The Catholic Church is not dying from persecution. It is dying from confusion. Under Pope Francis, ambiguity became policy.

People around the world are waiting for the new pope to be selected. Monsignor Scott Friend of Blessed Sacrament Catholic ...

Cardinal Daniel DiNardo led the Sioux City diocese as bishop for six years during the early 2000s. The 75-year-old is ...

We’re talking about the legacy of Pope Francis, the challenges facing the church and what’s involved in the real-life ...

Plumes of white smoke streaming from a Sistine Chapel chimney Thursday signaled that a new leader of the Roman Catholic ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

The dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, urged the voters to set aside all personal interests and ...

Born in the U.S., forged in Peru, chosen in Rome, Leo XIV will helm a church facing debt, division and decline ...

Pope Leo XIV gave a homily at a Mass a day after he was chosen to lead the Catholic Church. Here's what the new pontiff said, ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — White smoke poured from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter’s Basilica ...

The papal conclave begins Wednesday, May 7. There's no timeline for it to conclude. A new Pope could be selected in a matter of hours, days, weeks or even years. The voting is done in secrecy, with ...

As Catholics await the white smoke to pour out of the Vatican chimney, those at one independent catholic parish in Tulsa marked the papal conclave’s first day by releasing rainbow smoke.