The next leader of the global Catholic Church needs to put the issue of clerical sex abuse at the heart of their papacy, ...

All Roman Catholics are Christians, but not the other way around, differing in beliefs about the sacraments, the pope, the ...

The fundamental Christian message emphasizes compassion, and the Catholic Church over the centuries has played a vital role ...

True discipleship is not measured by the creeds Christians recite or the theology they know, but by how deeply they love, a ...

There are no official candidates for the papacy, but some cardinals are considered “papabile.” That means they possess the ...

A coalition of survivors of clergy sexual abuse demand the next pope adopt a universal zero-tolerance policy for abuse.

Francis vehemently opposed Argentina’s marriage equality law that then-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner signed in ...

Matteo Bruni, director of the Holy See Press Office, had stated at an April 29 press briefing that two cardinal electors ...

When Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was elected in 2013 as Pope Francis, he was a near total Vatican outsider. He had never been a Vatican official, instead spending decades in local ministry. And he came ...

A clerical twist has thrust Kenya’s Cardinal Njue into the global spotlight as he’s now eligible to vote for the next Pope, ...

The developments come amid real questions about how prominent the abuse scandal is featuring in the discussions about finding ...

Survivors of clerical abuse, experts in child protection and victim advocacy groups have collectively decried the presence of ...