The tomb was opened on the second of nine days of official mourning for Francis, after which a conclave will be held to elect the next pope ...

The tomb was opened on the second of nine days of official mourning for Francis, after which a conclave will be held to elect ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A popular saying in Vatican circles is that if you “enter a conclave as pope, you leave as a cardinal.” ...

Few could have predicted that a comment Pope Francis made during a 2018 visit to Chile would blow up into the biggest crisis of his papacy, and one that eventually set the Catholic Church on a new ...

The Irish public’s relationship with the Catholic Church was ruptured by the clerical abuse scandals that began to break in the late 1980s, and the subsequent cover-up by a terrified hierarchy only ...