At least one U.S. bishop said President Donald Trump needs to apologize and even his closest prelate in the church, Cardinal ...

Black smoke means a new pope has not been chosen, while white smoke means one has. Any male baptized in the Roman Catholic ...

deeply divisive within the Roman Catholic Church, that sought to fundamentally reorient the institution as more liberal and less beholden to its own hierarchy, which he left less White ...

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Nor do I support hierarchy, but if it must exist let it at least be ... Such are the contradictions of sexism in the Roman Catholic Church. The Vatican’s homosocial scene is on full display in Rome ...

At the end of a pope's reign, a secret vote takes place at the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, Rome. Here is the election process for a new pope.

Pope Francis, who led the Roman Catholic Church for more than 12 years and ... and steadily rose through the ranks of the Catholic hierarchy in Argentina before being appointed Archbishop of ...