David Tracy, an influential Catholic theologian who taught for 37 years at the University of Chicago Divinity School, has ...

Catholic cardinals gather and sequester themselves in the Vatican for the start of a conclave to elect a new pope.

With the papal conclave underway, Maureen H. O’Connell writes that the cardinals who elect his successor should keep in mind ...

Deepening unity among Catholics will be the greatest challenge facing the next pope, who will be elected as early as ...

The 133 cardinals from 70 countries will be locked inside the Sistine Chapel, where they will vote in secret and silence, a ...

Ross Douthat, a Times Opinion columnist, hosted an online conversation with Michael Brendan Dougherty, a senior writer at ...

African outreach was among Pope Francis' legacies, observers say, with numerous visits and a message of mercy inspiring ...

White smoke will soon rise again from the Sistine Chapel chimney, signaling a new era of leadership in the Catholic Church — ...

When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio emerged onto the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica after the conclave of March 2013, few ...

Angela S. Mattie is an attorney and professor at Quinnipiac University, where she hold an appointment in both the schools of ...

As cardinals prepare for the largest papal conclave in history, battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the church ...