Consider the numbers: More than 3,000 students were eligible to graduate from Bakersfield College this year, with 2,000-plus walking across the stage at Memorial Stadium on Friday night.

St Francis is a small, Catholic liberal arts college in Brooklyn, NY, that aims to cultivate leadership in its students and instill the teachings of St. Francis of Assisi.There are more than 70 ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Bakersfield College is set to host its largest commencement ceremony as school officials highlight the challenges and context behind graduation rates. Bakersfield ...

This company plans on helping students financially while attending BC. Nineteen13 will solely work with Bakersfield College students athletes. Their hope is to take the load off the athlete ...

"If we look at the structure of the College of Cardinals, Francis appointed so many cardinals that it seems unlikely we would … go back, but also, who's to say?" Sister Jeannine Gramick ...

At Carrington College's Bakersfield campus, which it shares on New Stine Road with its sister institution, San Joaquin Valley College, is a tradition known as the Why Wall. On it, hundreds of ...

The two clerics met in South America, and when Francis needed to fill an important job at the Vatican, he knew where to turn. By Emma Bubola Reporting from Vatican City A few years ago ...

As cardinals begin a conclave to choose Pope Francis’ successor, they must decide whether to find a pope who follows his path or forges a new one. By Jason Horowitz and Motoko Rich Reporting ...

The late Pope Francis donated all his remaining money to a youth rehabilitation project inside a Roman prison in one of his final acts as the head of the Roman Catholic Church. Before his death ...

(RNS) — Pope Francis raised the consciousness of bishops, priests and laity around the issues of sexism and unjust discrimination against women in the Catholic Church. (RNS) — Pope Francis ...

When the 133 cardinal electors enter the Sistine Chapel Wednesday (May 7) to select the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church, the influence of Pope Francis ... of the College of Cardinals ...