Francis’ 12-year reign saw small steps advancing women in the church. We may not know for years what the aims of a new papacy ...

Pope Francis prays at the beginning of the third day of a conference at the Vatican on dealing with sex abuse by priests, Feb ...

In 1962, Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council, which used Sister Rose Thering’s pioneering work against ...

The parade’s cultural relevance was also cemented by the 1948 Technicolor musical “Easter Parade,” starring Judy Garland and ...

For the Buddhists who deposited these relics — as for Buddhists today — the gems, bone and ash all belong to the Buddha and ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio became a pope of many firsts: the first modern pope from outside Europe, the first whose papal name ...

Drawing on Latin American theology that emphasizes collaboration, developed in response to continued struggles with ...

A new archbishop will not only need to lead the British church but play a significant role in the Anglican Communion.

The ADL’s findings add grist to an intense, divisive debate among American Jews — and others — over the extent to which ...

Although overtly campaigning to be pope is discouraged and would be counterproductive, the cardinals do a lot of politicking ...

Tens of thousands of people planned to be at the Vatican this week for the canonization of Carlo Acutis, the first millennial ...

A few months after comforting survivors of one of the strongest recorded tropical cyclones, Pope Francis published his ...