The world’s oldest person, Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, died Wednesday at the age of 116, having barely survived ...

As Catholic cardinals meet to choose a new pope, they will face a big question: Is it time, after three consecutive ...

Ghana’s Cardinal Peter Turkson is seen as one of the Church’s most influential men from Africa, where Christianity is quickly ...

People across Asia and Europe have kicked off May Day celebrations with marches and protests that spotlighted growing unease ...

Martin Scorsese is a producing a documentary made with Pope Francis that will chronicle the late pontiff's work with cinema ...

The conclave will have 135 cardinals, with Asian cardinals forming a visible 17 percent of them. African cardinals number 18 ...

When news of Pope Francis’ passing came, it took some time to sit with what that meant, for me and the world at large. My ...

Known by his peers as a serious theologian, scholar and educator, Erdő, 72, is a leading contender among conservatives. He ...

With the papal conclave that will select the next pontiff set to begin next week, all eyes are on nations with large Catholic ...

ASIA'S front-runner for the papacy, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of the Philippines, is a charismatic moderate often dubbed ...

SINCE college, I have known of the Catholics' partnership through the Movement of Muslim Christian Dialogue. It is timely to ...

MANILA, Philippines — Asia’s front-runner for the papacy, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of the Philippines is a charismatic ...