The selection of a new pope and how the process works is daily task for St. Peter's School's students and teachers.

Ahead of the 2013 conclave to replace Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan was tipped to restore the papal hat ...

Hollywood and the media love intrigue. And the interregnum in the Catholic Church provides much fodder for an institution that has long resisted secularism.

The Catholic Church's cardinals are meeting next week at the Vatican to elect the new pope in a centuries-old process called conclave. Recent conclaves took a few days, but the longest-ever in history ...

There’s sometimes shame and stigma connected to mental illness, and many religions are working to dismantle those old ways of ...

“That was quite revolutionary,” said Reese, author of the 1998 book “Inside the Vatican: The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church.” These changes in synod participation ...

The Society of Jesus is a Roman Catholic order founded in 1540 by Saint Ignatius of Loyola committed to spirituality and ...

Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI are among the elected bishops of Rome who have led the Catholic Church ...

While there are those who want to back away from Francis' outreach there is one unalterable fact: When the world's Catholic ...

When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected to lead the Catholic church in 2013, he chose the papal name Francis, after the 13th-century figure St. Francis of Assisi, known as the patron saint of ...

Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, died on Easter Monday at the age of 88. On Easter Sunday, he used his message ...

Archbishop Thomas Zinkula of the Archdiocese of Dubuque talks about his response to the recent death of a Catholic priest in Cedar Rapids, and how the church is providing more mental health support to ...