The conclave system may seem dramatic, but it was developed after centuries of outside interference and looting.

The move was announced in a letter to parishioners of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Tyler, which has offered ...

St. John Lateran's facade bears the Latin inscription of "Mother and Head of all the Churches in the City and the World." ...

Traditional Latin Mass communities are flourishing around the world with rising vocations and strong Mass attendance but ...

Following the example of a group of British cultural icons, a group of American "Catholics and non-Catholics" and prominent cultural and intellectual personalities asked Pope Francis in an open letter ...

Pope Francis made waves in September when he expelled 10 members of the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae — including Father Cardó ...

Cardinal Walter Kasper, a respected German theologian and a longtime conservative voice at the Vatican, told a German church ...

The same movement that entered the national consciousness with JD Vance's bid for vice president is coalescing in Nashville.

Francis has alienated and dismayed conservatives and traditionalists within the church while emboldening and giving hope to a large swath of Catholics who are craving reform. In a radical move late ...

The fact the Catholic church could stage such a massive consultative exercise and still somehow manage to hold everyone ...

As pilgrims gather in Rome for the 13th annual "Summorum Pontificum" pilgrimage for those devoted to the traditional Latin Mass Oct. 25-27, traditionalist Catholics in France are discerning a new idea ...

ROME (AP) — With Pope Francis a few weeks away from his 88th birthday ... in rounds of voting until they elect a new pontiff.