In perfect harmony with this season of new life, Vindel took the next step and received the Sacraments of Initiation during ...

"We are not yet speaking about the conclave or the succession; we are still speaking about Pope Francis, we are still crying ...

One nation people haven’t focused on will also feel the punch: the Vatican. Although the small papal city-state doesn’t have ...

The new pope will be chosen by cardinals gathered in the Sistine Chapel, with all of Michelangelo’s genius gazing down on ...

Ines San Martin writes for OSV News from Rome. She is vice president of communications at the Pontifical Mission Societies USA.

Two laymen have been working in tandem, though they may now know it, to make this Catholic moment last: Ross Douthat and ...

Grief-stricken Catholics in Southern California reflect on the transformative encounters they shared with him and how those ...

Thousands of people had made an early morning pilgrimage to St. Peter's Square April 23 to witness the transfer and pray for ...

Sister Dominici was born April 20, 1913, in Central Islip, New York, one of seven children of Italian immigrants Salvatore ...

More than 500 people attended the April 21 Mass celebrated by Archbishop Gomez. “I am going to miss him big time," said Gomez ...

A coalition of parents sued Montgomery County Public Schools when it would not allow parents to opt out of instruction using ...

Pope Francis, who died April 21 at age 88, "will long be remembered for his outreach to those on the margins of the Church ...