Time-honored rituals, drafted and refined over centuries, allow time for mourning and provide order at a dramatic moment of ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, and Chicago-born Cardinals Robert Prevost and Wilton Gregory would be part ...

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The recorded message was the first released by the Vatican since Pope Francis was hospitalized with a respiratory illness on ...

There is a Roman saying, ‘What the barbarians started the Barberinis completed’ with reference to one of the great dynastic ...

St. Francis is the medieval Catholic saint whose spirituality focused on loving the poor, creation, and peace.

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Vatican thriller Conclave won top prize at an unpredictable SAG awards gala Sunday, throwing a potential late curveball into the Oscars race.