The Room of Tears is just a few feet away from the Sistine Chapel, where the monumental decision of the papal election is ...

Inside the Sistine Chapel, each cardinal elector stood before his assigned seat, facing the Book of the Gospels, placed on a ...

Theologians from around the world will gather at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, this summer for the fifth ...

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the 91-year-old dean of the College of Cardinals, presided over the liturgy, underlining the ...

The ordination of 23 new Legionaries of Christ priests took place in St. Paul Outside the Walls Basilica, one of the four ...

The Diocese of Camden, New Jersey, said it will drop its fight against the state’s efforts to empanel a grand jury to investigate clergy abuse allegations.

The conclave has attracted global interest from Catholics and non-Catholics alike — along with tens of millions of dollars’ ...

On May 3, 1945, one of the greatest and most silenced maritime tragedies of the 20th century unfolded in the Bay of Lübeck in ...

When the cardinals gather in the Pauline Chapel and process to the Sistine Chapel on May 7 to begin the process of choosing a new pope, they call upon the assistance of the Holy Spirit as they sing ...

When a new pope is elected, there are two signs that mark that historic moment: the white smoke from the chimney of the ...

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals, delivered this homily at the "Pro Eligendo Romano Pontifice" ...

From Rome, where he is participating as a cardinal elector, the archbishop of Bogotá explained how the College of Cardinals ...