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

In closed-door sessions called congregations, cardinals have given 70 speeches to their brethren. The conclave is likely to ...

A coalition of survivors of clergy sexual abuse demand the next pope adopt a universal zero-tolerance policy for abuse.

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

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Pope Francis saw priests' embrace of the trappings of power as a "cancer" corroding the Roman Catholic Church, according to a ...

The next leader of the global Catholic Church needs to put the issue of clerical sex abuse at the heart of their papacy, ...

All Roman Catholics are Christians, but not the other way around, differing in beliefs about the sacraments, the pope, the ...

Matteo Bruni, director of the Holy See Press Office, had stated at an April 29 press briefing that two cardinal electors ...

Survivors of clerical abuse, experts in child protection and victim advocacy groups have collectively decried the presence of ...

While there are those who want to back away from Francis' outreach there is one unalterable fact: When the world's Catholic ...

All Roman Catholics are Christians, but not the other way around, differing in beliefs about the sacraments, the pope, the ...