Numerous prominent Democrats are blindly rallying to the defense of a Wisconsin judge arrested Friday by the FBI for ...

Pope Francis was a pope for our time. When so many practiced the politics of dehumanization, he stood for our common humanity ...

Ten U.S. cardinals are among those who will gather in Rome to elect a successor to Pope Francis, who died Monday.

A conclave to elect a new pope will begin on May 7, the Vatican announced. How long will it take for a decision to be reached ...

After a tumultuous papacy, Pope Francis leaves the Chair of Peter with faithful American Catholics anticipating a return to orthodoxy.

A papal conclave, the election of a new pope, tends to begin 15-20 days after a papal vacancy. Black or white smoke indicates ...

For six days in September, 2015, Pope Francis made a historic visit to the United States, visiting some of the country's ...

With more than 61 million Catholics and the second-highest number of cardinals after Italy, a guessing game is emerging on ...

Those touched − figuratively and literally − by Pope Francis, the "People's Pope," during his only visit to the U.S. reflect ...

The Vatican is closing the Sistine Chapel to the public as part of its preparations for the conclave to elect the next pope ...

The late pontiff was first Jesuit, the first Latin American, and first and last a priest, walking beside people on their ...

Cardinal Christophe Pierre, papal nuncio to the United States, reflected on Pope Francis’s legacy and the evangelizing ...