A papal conclave blends the political and the spiritual, cardinals and theologians say. Here, in Catholic belief, is how the ...

“I believe the Holy Spirit always intervenes in the choosing of the next pope,” the Rev. Halmar Adolis Calix, a priest from Honduras, told me. “And surely, the new pope will continue to give what the ...

The Register, the only Catholic newspaper to have received an interview with the newly elected ‘pontiff,’ heard from ‘Pope ...

The sixth word Christ utters from the cross brings us to the death of the Lord Jesus, crucified for our sake. “It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until ...

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves behind the Vatican's medieval walls for the start of a conclave to elect the ...

When Jesus dies on the cross, his abandonment by his Father rips at the very heart of the Trinity. Only one strand of hope remains on the evening of Good Friday — and that strand is called the Holy ...

The 133 cardinal-electors will surely feel the weight of heaven and earth on their shoulders when they behold the sacred ...