Hundreds of thousands of people gathered at the Vatican to pay their final respects and witness the funeral mass for the leader of the Catholic Church on ... (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) Cardinal ...

The Catholic Church is pushing back against a new law that was rushed through the legislature by Democrats over concerns of clergy, requiring priests to break the confidentiality of confession.

The proceedings will take place in absolute secrecy, with the prelates largely sequestered from the outside world for as long as the conclave lasts until a new Supreme Pontiff is chosen.

In the Catholic Church ... procession to the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican at the beginning of the conclave, April 18, 2005 [Osservatore Romano/AP Photo] Still, the Church cannot afford to ...

Pope Leo XIV gave his first homily at a Mass on Friday, one day after he was selected by a conclave of cardinals at the Vatican to lead the Catholic Church. The first U.S. pope in history said he ...

With both the US and the Catholic Church deeply divided ... Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio. The new pope used phrases favoured ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global ...

The bells of St Peter's Basilica and churches across Rome rang out, indicating the 2,000-year-old Church ... Catholic faith is thriving. Before the cardinals were locked into the Sistine Chapel ...

The cardinal electors of the Catholic Church elected an American on Thursday ... white smoke emerged from the chimney above the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, signaling that a new pope had been ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke was pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church.