The motto that Francis selected for his papacy, ‘looking at him with mercy, he chose him,’ was inspired by Caravaggio’s ...

Here's how the conclave creates black and white smoke and why the Catholic Church began using them to signal whether a new pope has been elected.

The Vatican conclave will continue on Thursday with more voting. A two-thirds majority of the 133 cardinals is required to select a new leader for the world’s 1.4 billion Roman Catholics.

Black smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first day of the conclave.

The conclave that begins today to choose the next Pope is a holy, serious endeavor to faithful Catholics—and a source for ...

An historical marker honoring the Rev. Dr. William Jefferson White, who fought for civil and religious rights, will be ...

In one of his final announcements before his death, Pope Francis granted Catalonian architect Antoni Gaudí the title of ...

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

Don’t Forget to Remember (Me)” by Nekisha Durrett is a landscaping monument challenging the college’s racially exclusionary ...

To mark 250 years since Paul Revere’s ride, a Boston art collective projected messages onto the city’s historic Old North Church.

As pontiff, Francis, who died Monday at age 88, sought to bring the Church closer to the people ... creating the sorts of photo-ops that would draw attention to his areas of interest.