And then there's Bishop Robert Barron. Barred from the conclave because he lacks a red hat, Barron was summoned to the White ...

The chimney on the Sistine Chapel is up, and voting to elect the next pope will begin on Wednesday afternoon, May 7. Here is ...

For the second Sunday in a row, the balcony from where the pope prays the traditional Angelus remained empty. An unusual ...

In a workshop that's a stone's throw from St. Peter's Basilica, 86-year-old Raniero Mancinelli has been sewing cassocks for ...

The universal church is on full display during the waiting-for-white-smoke period. Watchers who gather at St. Peter's Square ...

The voting is highly choreographed and time-consuming to avoid any possibility of fraud or doubt about the results.

Cardinal Baltazar Porras Cardozo of Merida, Venezuela, arrives to attend a general congregation meeting of the College of ...

Let us call to mind and heart the insights or events that have moved us to express our faith in action, how our work ...

"The Soul of Nature" is the first thorough survey of Caspar David Friedrich's career to be staged in the United States, and ...

The culture’s fascination with Francis’ papacy indicated a hunger for the simplicity and humility he projected. It was an ...

German Jesuit Fr. Hans Zollner urges "a clear message from the cardinals and from the newly elected pope that the church is ...

A close-up shows Cardinal Baldassare Reina, papal vicar of Rome, with his hands folded in prayer during the Mass on the third ...