The 133 cardinal-electors begin the process, following prayer and taking of their oaths. A reflection and Marian hymn will ...

My interest in Japanese Catholicism was reignited recently by the Nagasaki Bell Project, a noble effort being led by ...

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

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

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

The Register, the only Catholic newspaper to have received an interview with the newly elected ‘pontiff,’ heard from ‘Pope ...

COMMENTARY: Preaching, worship and charity aren’t rival qualities but form a unified mission — and the new pope must live and ...

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

As the cardinals discern the next pope, remember: your own election to sainthood has already been recorded in heaven. The ...

The story of Jacob’s wrestling match reminds every believer: spiritual victory often comes through honest struggle.

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 ...

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating an “anti-Catholic law” in Washington state that ...