The Vatican has not announced Pope Francis is resigning, contrary to online claims. Further, his successor would be elected ...

Germany’s Catholic Church has sharply criticized a carnival float made for a big street parade in the western city of Cologne ...

Pope Francis continued his slow recovery from double pneumonia on Thursday, beating back speculation of an imminent death, ...

The changes Francis brought to the papacy were more than skin deep. He opened the church to the outside world in ways none of ...

The Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, but not when he is ...

Bishop Ronald Hicks wrote St. Mary in Park Forest and St. Boniface in Monee will merge into St. Liborius Catholic Church in ...

Pope Emeritus Benedict stepped down from the papacy, making him the first one to take such a step in six centuries. This ...

Billy Joel's “Only The Good Die Young” was not well-liked by the Catholic church. However, the controversial anthem became a hit regardless.

A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...

Over the past century, Catholic leaders have wrestled with how much to embrace new forms of communication technology.

As Pope Francis remains in critical condition at Gemelli Hospital in Rome - still in charge of the Vatican and the worldwide ...

Cardinals, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), are bishops and Vatican officials from all ...