Cardinals electing a new pope have some fundamental questions to weigh, beyond whether to give the Catholic Church its first ...

European pope in centuries, Francis was especially aware of colonialism’s impact and the need to embrace many cultures within ...

I’ve been writing about the themes in St. John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body.” We have reached the point where St. John ...

More than 7,000 people were baptized Saturday in the waters off Huntington Beach, Calif., in what organizers called the ...

Close to the heels of Pope Francis’ death, the long list of possible successors emerged. Each day dawns with an exposition of ...

A papal conclave blends the political and the spiritual, cardinals and theologians say. Here, in Catholic belief, is how the ...