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

Bishop Michael F. Burbidge ordained seven men to the transitional diaconate April 26 — James M. Harbour, Donghan S. Lee, Sean ...

Pope Francis's death at the age of 88 means the Catholic Church must choose a new leader. Here's how cardinals elect the next ...

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

Rev. Thomas Reese, a Jesuit priest and commentator who has written about the Vatican's finances, said the budget woes could ...

The sixth Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Norwich was ordained Tuesday, marking a new era. Bishop Richard Reidy ...

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 ...

The question now turns to which man — and it will be a man, as women cannot be ordained priests in the Catholic ... Sistine Chapel until they elected a new pontiff, left to eat and sleep beneath ...

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 ...

The papacy of Pope Francis ended with the same core doctrine for LGBTQ+ people that he inherited: The Catholic Church still ...