Simony, properly defined by the Catholic Church as the selling of ecclesiastical offices and positions, has been designated ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A quiet alliance between North and South American cardinals helped elect the first US-born pope.

Since the election of Pope Leo XIV, a growing number of cardinals have been offering unusual glimpses into the conclave ...

Odds-makers likely had an easier time 20 years ago, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger stepped onto the balcony overlooking St.

Cardinal Stephen Chow, 65, the bishop of Hong Kong, was the only Chinese cardinal to vote in the conclave that elected Pope ...

Pope Leo XIV's church is growing steadily, but its believers are no longer concentrated on the continent where it was born.

To date, just one of the 266 Popes to have served the Catholic Church has been British. Learn more about Nicholas Breakspear ...

Peter Jones and a group of Loyola University Chicago educators traveled to Rome for an hour private meeting with Pope Francis. As the white ...

The US President's held two separate phone calls today, one with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the other with ...