In Detroit, traditionalist Catholics were bracing for a crackdown. The promise of change in Rome offers them a sliver of hope ...

Ross Douthat, a Times Opinion columnist, hosted an online conversation with Michael Brendan Dougherty, a senior writer at ...

During the Chrism Mass at the Cathedral of Christ the King April 15, Archbishop Hartmayer consecrated the chrism, blessed the ...

“We need to welcome and accompany,” said Sue DeFerrari, executive director of MorningStar Renewal Center, a Catholic ...

The Catholic Church has begun the highly choreographed process of choosing its new leader following the death of Pope Francis ...

Roman Catholic cardinals will begin the task of electing a new pope, locking themselves away from the world until they choose ...

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the 91-year-old dean of the College of Cardinals, presided over the liturgy, underlining the ...

Black smoke was pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave ...

Youngstown Bishop David Bonnar held a special Mass in Massillon on Wednesday to pray for the men assigned to choose the next pope.

The conclave will be a "fight for the soul of the Catholic Church" between those who saw promise in the modernising changes ...

St. Ignatius Catholic Church in Southeast Portland celebrated a memorial Mass for Pope Francis on Wednesday night.

Cardinal Robert Prevost joins the conclave Wednesday to pick Pope Francis' successor. His rise in the faith began at a South ...