When the cardinals vote, they burn their ballots and send up smoke to signal their decision: white smoke to show they have ...

At one month since his election to the papacy May 8, Pope Leo XIV has so far demonstrated a continuity with his predecessor, ...

Agostino Giovagnoli, a professor of Church history at Milan’s Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, described the more ...

"Holy father, I dare tell you that all of Mexico congratulates you and is with you," Aguiar Retes says he told Pope XIV.

As a Chicago-born math major, canon lawyer and two-time superior of his global Augustinian religious order, the 69-year-old ...

Experts from 18 European Union countries gathered June 3–5 to reflect on communication that “restores meaning” to people’s ...

The music has changed. Beyond the existing factions that remain the clear reflection of a heavily polarized general picture - ...

About 150 people gathered this morning on the Jackson Mansion lawn to hear an announcement by Gov. Josh Shapiro.Among them were workers in Amazon T-shirts standing by an excavator, U.S. Rep. Dan ...

Swedish Cardinal Anders Arborelius said the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV “was first and foremost a unifying experience.

Al Pacino turned down an offer to play Han Solo in Star Wars because he didn't "understand" the space opera. The Godfather ...

The events that culminated in the May 8 election of Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost as the Catholic Church’s 267th ...