Their faith was based on such a strong and personal experience of Christ, dead and risen, that they were not afraid of ...

Standing alongside the icon of Mary that Francis often visited in that basilica during his pontificate, the cardinal prayed ...

To pray for the dead means, therefore, to love those who have died, and that is what we are doing now for Pope Francis,” ...

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Church Office Building looms large in downtown Salt Lake City as did the decision ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of ...

Though absent physically, his words provided a particular presence as participants ... different aspects of the Church and society took turns bearing the wooden cross through subsequent stations ...

Cardinals are meeting in a secret, sacred conclave for a second day as they seek a new pontiff to follow Pope Francis.

For Pope Francis, the liturgy both defied easy definition, and yet could also be encapsulated in just a couple of sentences: ...

The answer is that John understood the death of Jesus ... that church leaders, theologians, and others have today. In recent years, there has been a growing body of work looking at Jesus’s Passion — ...

The first pope was Peter, one of Jesus ... his sheer presence captured people. In Paraguay in 2015, thousands of poor people waved homemade signs as the papal motorcade pushed through the ...