In a spiritually uplifting ceremony, Deacon Melroy Peter D’Silva was ordained as a Capuchin priest by the Bishop of Udupi, Dr ...

Richard Reidy, formerly with the Diocese of Worcester, was made Bishop of the Diocese of Norwich during his Episcopal ...

Of the 135 electors, more than 100, or nearly three-quarters, of the members of the college were appointed by Pope Francis, ...

There are no official candidates for the papacy, but some cardinals are considered “papabile,” or possessing the characteristics necessary to become pope. After St. John Paul II broke the ...

The eve of a papal conclave evokes the image of a famine for activists and human rights defenders, like me. Nobody occupies ...

Popes, of course, can’t do much. That’s not how Catholicism works. A new pope is in a similar position to a new director of ...