A coalition of survivors of clergy sexual abuse demand the next pope adopt a universal zero-tolerance policy for abuse.

America’s editors on the ground in Rome discuss the latest conclave news and the work that remain for whoever is elected as Pope Francis’ successor.

Known by his peers as a serious theologian, scholar and educator, Erdő, 72, is a leading contender among conservatives. He ...

Security for he conclave of cardinals to elect a successor to late Pope Francis will be like the security measures ad oped ...

Much of what you hear about who the next pope will be, spoken with enormous confidence by people in the know, is often ...

All Roman Catholics are Christians, but not the other way around, differing in beliefs about the sacraments, the pope, the ...

American Cardinal Kevin Farrell announced the death of Pope Francis from the chapel of Casa Santa Marta, where the late Holy ...

Matteo Bruni, director of the Holy See Press Office, had stated at an April 29 press briefing that two cardinal electors ...

Survivors of clerical abuse, experts in child protection and victim advocacy groups have collectively decried the presence of ...

Francis vehemently opposed Argentina’s marriage equality law that then-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner signed in ...

The appeal came as the cardinals concluded their seventh general congregation — the daily meetings leading up to the start of ...