Massa traces this strain in American Catholicism back to what’s been called the “comic opera heresy” of a fellow Jesuit, ...

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The process of picking a new pope is filled with ancient rituals like a secret ballot and locked doors. See a visual guide to conclave.

Teobaldo Visconti became pope Gregory X in September 1271. But the longest conclave in more recent times was that of 1831, ...

Cardinals from around the world will meet under Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel on May 7 to elect a new leader of the Catholic Church after Pope Francis's death.

While there are those who want to back away from Francis' outreach there is one unalterable fact: When the world's Catholic ...

The 25th Anniversary program will include a May Crowning, the recitation of the Rosary and Marian Music and Prayers. Coffee ...

For centuries, the leader of the Catholic Church has been chosen in ... pontiff follow an elaborate process with roots in the Middle Ages. The rituals as we know them today have been subsequently ...

The animosity between Jews, Persians/Iranians and Muslims has not always been so. In fact, had it not been for the latter, ...

Cardinals tasked with picking the next pontiff follow an elaborate process with roots in the Middle Ages. For centuries, the leader of the Catholic ... his inauguration Mass, which usually takes ...

(RNS) — Two years ago, Pope Francis denounced what he called “a very strong, organized, reactionary attitude” within the American Catholic ... of the High Middle Ages. All have been arrayed ...