ATLANTA — Kentucky has a coach with a clipboard who knows how to use it. New Wildcats head man Mark Pope made all the right ...

I'm a historian of the medieval papacy and editor of the forthcoming three volumes of the Cambridge History of the Papacy. So ...

Papal elections aren't always as dramatic as "Conclave," a new film starring Ralph Fiennes, but the history behind the process is.

Why did the pope choose to depart from highly relevant social issues to dedicate his fourth encyclical to an ancient devotion, the Sacred Heart of Jesus? Following Lumen fidei (2013), which ...

La Croix: The pope is about to publish an encyclical on the Sacred Heart. What is this devotion about? Father Etienne Kern: The devotion to the Sacred Heart is a spirituality entirely focused on ...

Pope Francis's child protection board called for victims of clergy sexual abuse to have greater access to information about their cases and the right to compensation, in the first-ever global ...

Pope Francis' child protection board called Tuesday for victims of clergy sexual abuse to have greater access to information about their cases and the right to compensation, in the first-ever ...

Pope Francis emphasized the need for empathy and justice toward migrants in a recent address to the St. Charles Borromeo Fraternity, he said that welcoming and integrating them is essential to ...

Twice in past years, I hopped a flight to Rome in order to cover one of the most arcane, storied and secretive events in human history: the election of a new pope. That event is also known as a ...

“There are certain echoes, but in terms of turning the Republican Party into a one-party state, that seems rather farfetched at the moment,” said Kertzer, author of “The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret ...