Vatican firefighters have installed the iconic chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, a key step ahead of the May 7 conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor. Black smoke = no pope yet; white smoke = a new ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday announced a trade deal with the United Kingdom -- the first in what the White House said ...

Elected Thursday as the Catholic Church's first global leader to hail from the United States, Pope Leo XIV is in a new job ...

The White House has already slashed funding for natural disaster recovery and preparedness, putting the country at serious ...

The conclave of the College of Cardinals has elected a new pope on the second day of balloting at the Vatican.

When all six refused, they were handcuffed and placed into solitary confinement. Later on Wednesday, U.S. District Court ...

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While elements of the Roman Catholic Church may go in different directions, there is a long history of close association ...

St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church of Smithtown and Village of the Branch have been embroiled in a yearlong legal dispute ...

Argentine cardinal Angel Rossi, one of the 133 now gathered at the Vatican to elect a new pope, told Reuters before the ...

For today’s sermon on courage, I would like the church to open their King James Bibles to Matthew 27:24: “When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took wate ...

The Supreme Court heard arguments last month on parents’ rights to excuse their children from public school lessons on LGBTQ+ ...