The Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas — also known as the Angelicum — is not only the alma mater of Pope St. John ...

ABC News’ Maggie Rulli reports from Vatican City as the first Roman Catholic pope from the U.S. formally took over as the leader of the church and greeted the faithful in the popemobile.

The church's owner hopes the papal link can help efforts to save and reuse the parish buildings on the Far South Side.

where cardinals will begin the secretive voting process to select the next man who will lead the Roman Catholic Church. A total of 133 cardinals will be casting their ballots starting at 4:30 p.m ...

Most of the cardinals who will vote for the new pontiff inside the Sistine ... noted how the Roman Curia – the administrative body of the Roman Catholic Church – is an ecclesiastical body ...

after the victim told cops he raped her on April 16 inside of Our Lady of Fatima Roman Catholic Church in East Elmhurst, the sources said. The girl reported the abuse on April 25, saying Ramos ...

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, signalling a new leader for the world's 1.4 billion Catholics has been elected.

(AP) The papal conclave is the secretive, centuries-old process by which the Roman Catholic Church elects a new pope ... the cardinals are literally locked inside the chapel until a decision ...

He also oversaw the ecumenical council at Chalcedon in A.D. 451, which is where the Roman Catholic Church affirmed the ... to National Geographic’s Inside the Medieval World.

For politics watchers, it was especially appealing since a papal conclave is a perfect example of a high-stakes election inside a closed system. The Roman Catholic Church chooses its leader the ...