The changes Francis brought to the papacy were more than skin deep. He opened the church to the outside world in ways none of ...

Despite his condition, Pope Francis has upheld a tradition he began at the start of the war in Gaza, making nightly calls to ...

Bishop Ronald Hicks wrote St. Mary in Park Forest and St. Boniface in Monee will merge into St. Liborius Catholic Church in ...

The Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, but not when he is ...

While the Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, they do not ...

Cardinals, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), are bishops and Vatican officials from all ...

The superintendent of K-12 schools in the Diocese of Grand Rapids, Michigan, spearheads strong educational mission with the ...

While attending St. Carthage School in his native Chicago as a sixth grader in 1958, Wilton Gregory was inspired to become ...

Over the past century, Catholic leaders have wrestled with how much to embrace new forms of communication technology.

This small park used to be home to the first Catholic Church for African Americans west of Baltimore, served by the first ...