And so it begins. The world's most secretive ceremony to select a new Pope is underway. Never will a chimney have so many eyes fixed upon it.

The conclave to elect a new pope will start behind the closed doors of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, with all cardinals under the age of 80 able to vote ...

Small nations and states will seek their place under the sun, while the great powers will demand that they renounce their ...

If you ask an Italian, almost five decades of having foreigners as pope is enough. The pope is the bishop of Rome, and it is ...

VICTOR GAETAN is Senior International Correspondent for National Catholic Register and the author of God’s Diplomats: Pope Francis, Vatican Diplomacy, and America’s Armageddon. He contributes to ...

The story of the Rev. Hilarion Alfeyev captures how a once robust effort to bring Russian Orthodox Christianity and the ...

In bronze, he glorified figures like Peter the Great and Vladimir Putin, often to the public’s distaste. Some works, like a ...

Matteo Zuppi: Pope Francis's peace envoy Matteo Zuppi, the 69-year-old archbishop of Bologna and president of the Italian ...

St. John died in a building behind the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral on Capitol Hill. The room where he died is a ...

Predicting the next pope can be a notoriously secretive and unpredictable exercise. An old Italian saying even ...

A theologian has lambasted Serbia's Church leader over his hostile remarks to President Putin about the ongoing protests in ...

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