As the health of Pope Francis remains a critical concern, attention in the Catholic world is shifting toward the future leadership of the Church. With the pontiff grappling with ...

A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...

Philip Shenon talks about the past seven popes, and how efforts to reform the Church with the Second Vatican Council led to power struggles and doctrinal debates that lasted for decades.

This small park used to be home to the first Catholic Church for African Americans west of Baltimore, served by the first ...

John Lithgow credits the timeliness of his latest film, Conclave, with why audiences have resonated with it. He and his ...