In the papal conclave to elect a new pope, here's a look at what the color of smoke (black or white) means after each vote.

His critics were fellow clergy as well as elected officials in the ascendant wing of the American Catholic political realm.

Many devotees who heard the news of Pope Francis’s demise came straight to St. Michael’s Church in Sharjah rather than ...

Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, was the first Latin American pope. He served as the head of the Catholic Church since ...

On a chilly, cloudy morning in Rockland County, Rev. Steven Neier led a joyful yet solemn Easter Monday Mass at St. Paul's ...

ANALYSIS: Pope Francis changed a deeply traditional institution more than most observers could have imagined possible in only ...

The boy who would become Pope Francis was born as Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires on Dec. 17, 1936. Bookish, ...

The pontiff, who died on Easter Monday at age 88, strived to make the church more inclusive. But critics believed his reforms ...

The fraught journey the two pious men undertake to find Ferreira becomes a harrowing exploration of spiritual doubt, ...

As the liturgy drew to a close and the congregation departed in silence, Cardinal McElroy’s homily left the faithful with ...

If I told you that I visited Notre-Dame de Paris in March of this year and that, while there, I had begun to get this strange ...

A butter lamb has taken center stage on my family’s Easter table for as long as I can remember. Each year at Easter, my ...