While there was jubilation over the war's end in Europe, men were still being called up for service and casualties were still ...

Pope Francis’ emphasis on reaching out to the “peripheries" of the church and world will result in the most diverse ...

Some places feel straight out of a medieval legend—stone walls stretching into the distance, towers rising above the rooftops, and narrow lanes winding through centuries of history... Carcassonne, the ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass in the Sistine Chapel where he was elected less than 24 hours earlier, warning of the ...

The upcoming conclave to elect the successor to Pope Francis will be the largest in the history of the Catholic Church, with 133 cardinal electors expected to gather in the Sistine Chapel on May 7 ...

A cathedral isn't just a grand church. In modern English, the word has come to signify a towering monument, the pouring of one's heart and soul, and commitment to a magnificent cause.

For the first time, the majority of cardinals to choose a pope are not from Europe, as Catholic demographics shift. But ...

the cardinal who is now Pope Leo XIV sat at a large round table inside the Vatican, discussing the challenges that face the Roman Catholic Church with a cardinal from Ethiopia, archbishops from ...

A Filipino or Congolese pope would signal that Catholicism’s demographic heart now beats in Manila and Kinshasa, rather than ...

The dome of a century-old church was blown to the ground in McKees Rocks. “My first thought was ‘Wow, how did this happen?’ and it is so large and yet these are the smaller domes,” said ...

Sistine Chapel to elect the next pope. Understanding their makeup in geographic terms can help explain some of their ...