Archbishop Bernard Hebda in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and other faith leaders including Pope Francis called for prayer, peace and racial healing. Archbishop Hebda agreed to talk May ...

The monastery of Casamari in Italy was built in the 11th century on the foundations of a temple dedicated to Ceres, the Greek ...

They went into last week’s conclave vastly outnumbered and smarting after being sidelined by Pope Francis for 12 years. And yet conservatives and traditionalist Catholics are cautiously optimistic ...

Speaking in an interview in his apartment library just off St. Peter's Square, Mueller said Francis’ crackdown on traditionalists and the old Mass created unnecessary divisions that Leo knows he must ...

Speaking in an interview in his apartment library just off St. Peter's ... and the old Mass created unnecessary divisions that Leo knows he must heal. Pope Benedict XVI had loosened restrictions ...

Even if it’s just three nuns, the return of a monastic order to the two-century-old monastery would mean a renewal of purpose ... They wake each morning at 4:15 a.m. to days filled with prayer, ...

The 69-year-old Chicago native is the first American pope ... Wednesday in the Vatican and hundreds of people poured into St. Peter's Square. The Vatican released video of cardinals, 220 of ...

In 2013, the entire St. Barnabas congregation became Roman Catholic under a plan set up by then-Pope Benedict XVI ... renovations to its 102-year-old building in the Joslyn neighborhood were ...

The crowds cheered as 14 white-gloved pallbearers carried it from Saint Peter’s Basilica into ... smartphones raised alongside prayer cards. Hundreds of clergy in flowing vestments moved like ...

Francis’ predecessor, Benedict XVI, was already 78 by the time he was elected. Benedict resigned at 85 years old ... St. Ignatius, which sets guidelines for meditation, self-awareness and prayer.

Mourners gathered on Monday in St. Peter’s Square for the first prayer service ... town in southeastern Italy was first made by Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis’ predecessor.

Francis became pope in 2013. In recent years, the 88-year-old was forced to cancel some events, sometimes at the last minute, because of his health.