The Lazio Bishops Conference in Rome approved the beatification of Beninese Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, a prominent Roman ...

Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, the Peruvian Catholic conservative movement, has confirmed its upcoming dissolution by the ...

But members of the curia—the ... Hebblethwaite’s book The Next Pope. They are elected by the church’s cardinals, the highest ranking members of the world’s Roman Catholic clergy.

Cardinals under the age of 80 elect the Pope when the Holy See becomes vacant; and are major administrators of church affairs, serving in one or more departments of the Roman Curia. Cardinals in ...

“Forgery and tax fraud carried severe penalties under Roman law, including hard labor or even capital punishment,” Dolganov ...

Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have unveiled ...

Professor Mary Healy of Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Michigan discusses her appointment to the Dicastery for Divine Worship ...

Cardinal Sarah warned that there is in fact a crisis of faith in today’s world and that it is now at 'the deepest and most ...

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...

Our columnist on four stellar new releases. By Alida Becker Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the ...

Historian Yvonnick Denoël delves into recently declassified documents for his book 'Vatican Spies', revealing an intricate ...