People in Rome and the Vatican are relying on their faith as they cope with the daily anxiety waiting to hear about the ...

Germany’s Catholic Church has sharply criticized a carnival float made for a big street parade in the western city of Cologne ...

Despite this widespread spirituality, there are harbingers of future religious decline. Most notably, Pew found a huge age ...

Young people contributed to the shift. “If you’re a young white male these days and you think of yourself as conservative, ...

The executive director admonished me for talking over him, and maybe I was, because it’s not every day that your church ...

Over the weekend, the Vatican announced serious complications in the recovery of Pope Francis. The 88-year-old pontiff, who ...

Americans who go to religious services tend to worship at places where most other congregants and senior leaders share their ...

Thousands of people have gathered in St. Peter’s Square to pray for an ailing Pope Francis, expressing sorrow for his ...

As Pope Francis remains in critical condition fighting a complex respiratory infection and double pneumonia, world and ...

The parish, which is under the care of the Redemptorists and located in the Grand Center district of St. Louis, will receive ...

Like his predecessors, Pope Francis was selected using an age-old method -- a system known as the Papal conclave.

A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...