Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, convicted of financial crimes, will not participate in the upcoming conclave to elect the new pope. Becciu, once a powerful figure in the Vatican, was ordered by Pope ...

Harold James & Montagu James hope that Francis’s final message of supporting for the vulnerable will resonate in a ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A conclave is the centuries-old election of a pope that derives its name from the Italian “con clave” ...

The administration says that it has a mandate to carry out campaign promises and restore law and order. Most Americans, ...

Whoever succeeds Pope Francis to become the Catholic Church's 267th pope, his first major decision will be to choose his ...

Becciu was sentenced to nearly five years in prison after a Vatican criminal court found him guilty of fraud and embezzlement ...

It was one of the nun’s traits, aside from her work for racial equality, that Pope Francis saw as worthy of sainthood.

The cardinal, who was convicted of embezzlement in 2023 by a Vatican court of first instance, decided not to attend the ...

This Thursday is the 2025 National Day of Prayer, a tradition as old as the U.S. itself. Here's what to know about the day and how it's observed.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, provides an inside look into what goes on during conclave in the Catholic ...

The Italian cardinal at the heart of the Vatican’s “trial of the century” announced Tuesday he was withdrawing from ...

Building on years of appeals from Native people to Francis, the Vatican formally repudiated the “Doctrine of Discovery,” the legal theories backed by 15th-century papal bulls decrees that legitimized ...