Vice President JD Vance was expected to be among the dignitaries attending the Mass in St. Peter’s Square. It marks the start ...

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Who is the next man destined to lead the Catholic Church? Let’s take a look at the election of the pope through the centuries, all the way to the 2013 conclave following Benedict XVI’s ...

In a new teaching series on the Catechism, which explains the papacy, Sri, a founding leader of FOCUS, of which he serves as ...

In 'We Have Never Been Woke,' Musa al-Gharbi seeks to untangle competing threads of discourse around identity and social ...

Live updates and latest news as the first North American pope steps into his role as the new leader of the Catholic Church.

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The second day begins with Mass at 8:15 a.m. in the Pauline Chapel, followed at 9:30 by midmorning prayer from the Divine ... John Paul II that would allow a simple majority of the cardinals ...

For Pope Francis, the liturgy both defied easy definition, and yet could also be encapsulated in just a couple of sentences: "It is an act that founds the whole Christian experience and, therefore, ...

The conclave to elect a new pope, scheduled to begin May 7, is governed by two texts: a rule book and a prayer book. The rule book is the apostolic constitution, "Universi Dominici Gregis ...

The Pope, famous—perhaps foremost—for his insistence on simplicity and aversion to clerical glitz, wanted to be buried not at the Vatican but at the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major, where before and ...