Cardinal George Pell, a leading Roman Catholic conservative, said the Vatican needs clear rules to govern the status of future popes who resign rather than rule for life and that such a move would ...

U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick in 2000 despite rumours of his sexual misconduct, a Vatican report found, one of a series of failings by popes and officials who let him rise through the ranks ...

By mid-autumn the Georgian capital once again became a meeting ground for the world’s stages. The Tbilisi International ...

Today in History for Oct. 12: In 451, nearly 600 bishops of the Christian church began meeting at the Second Ecumenical Council. After several days of debate, the Chalcedonian creed, which affirmed ...

Ironically, the problems that are causing the waning of the TLM might be remedied were the TLM more widely available.

Cardinal Mauro Gambetti presided over a penitential rite of reparation at the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica following a ...

A pontiff who was corrupt to the core, Benedict IX was barely out of his teens when he became leader of the Holy See. Totally ...

MADEIRA BEACH, Fla. — Madeira Beach commissioners agreed to accept City Manager Robin Gomez’s resignation agreement on Wednesday, which gave him one extra week of severance pay. Gomez was hired for ...

ANALYSIS: Church leaders in the Central African country have criticized the endemic corruption that has undermined the nation ...