The Vatican announced this week that its College of Cardinals will convene on May 7 for the conclave process at the famed Sistine Chapel – where they'll elect Pope Francis' successor as leader of the ...

The College of Cardinals will convene on May 7th at the Sistine Chapel to elect Pope Francis' successor. Catholicism is the largest branch of Christianity, differing from other branches primarily in ...

THE African Catholics who welcomed Pope Paul to their continent last week are among the newest and the oldest Christians in the world. In Egypt, Alexandria had a colony of Christians at the time of ...

(RNS) A new report mapping the Catholic Church’s more than 1.2 billion souls—on track to reach 1.64 billion by 2050—holds some surprises. And not all bode well for the church’s future as it faces ...

The Francis era in Roman Catholicism is a good example of how the abnormal and even extraordinary can come to feel, with enough repetition, old hat and status quo. The wildness of the last decade is ...

Another ancient barrier of suspicion between Roman Catholics and Protestants seems about to fall: the distrust of one another’s sacraments. Catholics have historically refused to acknowledge the ...