In a process that can last days, weeks, or even years, popes are elected by cardinals under strict oaths of silence.

Pope Francis, the 266th Bishop of Rome and Sovereign of the Vatican City, has died on Easter Monday. Bells tolled in church ...

Catholics celebrated the Easter Vigil in the Holy Night at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Saturday, marking what Pope ...

The early church believed that after his death Christ descended into hell in order to rescue the souls of the righteous.

KALAYAAN, Philippines (AP) — Dozens of penitents whip their backs to atone for their sins during Good Friday rites in the the ...

Vladimir Grygorenko is decorating the dome of a North Texas Christian Orthodox Church with an iconic representation of the ...

Just before Christmas in 2021, Marianite of Holy Cross Sister Suellen Tennyson was stationed at her congregation’s medical ...

I read an article in My Edmonds News about the Washington State Legislature passing a law requiring clergy to report child abuse even when that knowledge is ...

Pope Francis declared venerable the giant of Catalan Modernisme, who infused motifs from nature and Christianity into his Sagrada Família and other landmarks.

A Jesuit priest discusses how Christian tattooing started shortly after Jesus’ crucifixion and spread across Europe in later ...

Dominican Sr. Carol Gilbert joined Catholics and members of various faiths for a Holy Week vigil April 14 in the park in ...

It’s Holy Week—and the tension between mercy and vengeance isn’t just a theological debate. It’s front-page news, from ...