Vatican firefighters have installed the iconic chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, a key step ahead of the May 7 conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor. Black smoke = no pope yet; white smoke = a new ...

A week after death of Pope Francis, Catholics reflect on shifts for local faith community amid church's broader ...

The renewed interest in the traditional rite aligns with what’s known as the “strict church” hypothesis, which stipulates ...

Disenchanted as Protestants, Trent and Cynthia Palm, parishioners of St. Patrick in Oak Grove, said they began looking into ...

For many of us who slipped away from the Church, Pope Francis represented the kindness we were always looking for and still ...

Euclid is a six-year mission by the European Space Agency (ESA) aimed at mapping the dark universe by analyzing the positions ...

Pope Francis was laid to rest over the weekend in Rome, after a funeral mass in Vatican City. As millions watched the ...

Parishioners appreciate the altar rails at St. Raymond of Penafort Catholic ... of Holy Communion. Reverence has increased yet another way. Father Tomeny described how, outside of Mass, the ...

From Viking ruins to Filipino families, a small Catholic community brings new life to the Church’s oldest frontier.

The pope’s unadorned tomb, marked by a single Latin word — Franciscus — was intended, a cleric said, to reflect a life of ...