The Roman Catholic Church chooses its leader the way American political parties used to choose their presidential nominees at conventions. The electorate is tiny, supercharged by its members ...

The real Pope Francis will be the focus of many official and scholarly examinations, but Francis and the other characters in ...

The Catholic Church is not dying from persecution. It is dying from confusion. Under Pope Francis, ambiguity became policy. Tradition was treated as baggage, and doctrine was left to the ...

Francis advocated for the powerless, for those who have so little and yet are villainized by people in positions of authority ...

80 The sacramental bond of the unity of Christians 1271 Baptism constitutes the foundation of communion among all Christians, including those who are not yet in full communion with the Catholic ...

We cannot baptize a child against the wishes of its parents; and if the parents are not Catholics, they must not only consent to the baptism, but also agree to bring the child up in the Catholic ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — More than 130 Catholic cardinals on Wednesday began the secretive, centuries-old ritual to elect a successor to Pope Francis, opening the most geographically diverse conclave ...

He prayed that his historic papacy can help the Catholic Church be a beacon illuminating "the dark nights of this world". Dressed in relatively simple white and gold vestments, the former Cardinal ...

So these parents, and they’re of many faiths — Muslim, Catholic, Protestant ... and so on, in each page. And there are pictures of lots of things on those pages. archived recording (chief ...

Letters may be edited for length and clarity. Three students from Loretto Abbey Catholic Secondary School in Toronto have been crowned this year’s High School Ethics Bowl National Champions after ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost appears on the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica after being chosen the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, choosing the name of Pope Leo XIV, at the Vatican ...

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