Black smoke billows from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel May 8, 2025, the second day of the conclave. The black smoke ...

Fernanda Torres stars in a scene from the movie "I'm Still Here." The OSV News classification is A-II -- adults and ...

Only one ballot was cast on the first day of the conclave. On following days, up to four ballots are cast each day. If, after ...

Invoking the help of the Holy Spirit and recognizing that millions of people all over the world were praying for them, 133 ...

Maybe we need to ask ourselves, all these centuries later: are we listening?

However, along the immense walls surrounding the Vatican, it was business as usual May 7 as hundreds of tourists joined the ...

Police officers, firefighters, law officials, first responders and others gathered May 6 at St. Patrick Catholic Church in ...

This reasoning is echoed in a private reply from the Apostolic Penitentiary (the Vatican “department” responsible for ...

At Mass before the conclave that will elect the next pope, the dean of the College of Cardinals urged his brothers to choose ...

Dancers from the Chinese Catholic Community of New Jersey participate in the call to prayer featuring sacred songs and ...

ROME (CNS) – In a full church on a Monday evening in Rome, just two days before the conclave to elect a new pope was set to ...

Addressing a May 1 panel discussion on “The Legacy of Pope Francis and the Future of the Church,” Dominican Father Aquinas ...