People gather in front of video screens in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican May 7, 2025, to watch cardinals entering the conclave to elect a new pope. (CNS Photo/Pablo Esparza) Invoking the help of ...

Two questions are probably responsible for about 90% of conversation between media members that I’ve heard (or overheard) ...

Grants have grown in steady increments for the past 20 years, Fitzgerald said. Since its inception in 1988, the Papal ...

Francis’ way of seeing the role of women in the Church is best understood against this backdrop: For him it was a matter of ...

"I’m happy about the work that we did with the kids because they now carry in their hearts that seed of faith." ...

First of all, the conclave has a rule that if the voting takes too long, then a pope can be elected with a 50+1 percent of ...

Francis is not the only pope to rest there. Seven others are buried on the grounds, most notably St. Pius V, who established ...

The prayer book is the "Ordo Rituum Conclavis" ("Rites of the Conclave"), which was approved by St. John Paul II in 1998, but ...

David Cloutier is a professor of moral theology at the University of Notre Dame, with a concurrent appointment in the Business Ethics and Society Program of the Mendoza College of Business.

Sister Alessandra Smerilli is a member of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, also known as the Salesian Sisters. She serves in the Vatican as secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral ...

"We just buried our beloved Pope Francis and the cardinals are about to enter a solemn conclave to elect a new successor of ...

Father John Kyebasuuta marvels at what has changed — and what remains the same — every time he makes his annual trip to the ...