EDITORIAL: It’s long-standing and settled law in the U.S. that priest-penitent discussions are privileged private ...

At the end of the Mass, the cardinals and congregation sang the Regina Caeli, the traditional Easter hymn to the Blessed ...

This, then — love it or leave it — is what popes are for, according to the Catechism: keeping the bishops in step, keeping ...

We are here to invoke the help of the Holy Spirit, to implore his light and strength so that the Pope elected may be he whom ...

Starting Wednesday, 133 cardinal electors from 71 countries are gathering in the Sistine Chapel, making this conclave the ...

Three Republican-led states sued the FDA last year, maintaining that the loosening restrictions on the drug mifepristone have ...

A bell is also rung, part of the ritual introduced when Pope Benedict XVI was elected, which confirms the smoke is white and ...

Each May, the Church honors the Blessed Mother. The words of our most recent popes about Our Lady also relate to their focus ...

Pope Francis’ former point man on migrants has drawn criticism with comments in the context of the African continent being ...

I hope the next Holy Father desires to be a faithful steward of the heritage and rich traditions of the Church. People crave ...

My interest in Japanese Catholicism was reignited recently by the Nagasaki Bell Project, a noble effort being led by professor James Nolan of Williams College, the grandson of a doctor who was one of ...

The moment is full of mystery — no one in the outside world knows when it will happen or who will emerge from the many ...