The question facing the conclave is whether the cardinals want to continue in the direction set by Pope Francis.

B rompton Oratory is a peculiar place to find people in their 20s. This grand old church in west London smells of old things ...

Over the course of a day and a half, the more than 130 members of the College of Cardinals had come to a decision on who ...

As the cardinals gather to vote for Pope Francis's successor on May 7, as they have for centuries, it is the traditions and ...

What part of the world will the next pope come from? Anything is possible when considering who the next leader of the ...

Originally from Chicago, Illinois, Prevost made history as the first American pope. Most popes have been European, but the ...

Catholics across Texas cheered as they watched news coverage of white smoke emerge from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, a sign that a gathering of cardinals in the conclave had finally ...

LONDON, May 7 (Reuters) - Twenty-three-year-old Joshua Steel found a "great sense of peace" that he couldn't find anywhere else when he started attending Catholic Mass in Britain. Twenty-six-year ...

Christianity, according to Britannica.com, is a world religion rooted in the life, teachings and death of Jesus Christ, and Roman Catholicism is the largest of its three most significant offshoots.

Ilo pointed to his native Nigeria, where Catholicism has been in some ways outpaced by an explosion of Pentecostal Christianity. “One thing Pope Francis did was to animate and empower young ...

And almost 500 years after King Henry VIII's split with Rome to create the Church of England, Catholicism is now more popular than Anglicanism in the 18-34 age group of churchgoers, with 41% ...