Following papal tradition, the Gammarelli family, tailors to the Vatican for over two centuries, prepares three robes in ...

The Vatican conclave will continue on Thursday with as many as four more rounds of voting. A two-thirds majority of the 133 cardinals is required to select a new leader for the world’s 1.4 billion ...

What happens during the interregnum period? Tom Reese, S.J., explains the time between one pope's death and the succession of ...

Pope Francis's passing reminds us yet again of the complete absence of women in the upper echelons of the church. This is despite the fact that he did more to elevate women than any other pope.

Phones, internet, television and any contact from outside the Vatican walls are prohibited, a custom enforced to discourage ... One international group, Ending Clergy Abuse, or ECA, echoed Martin ...

Within the magnificent stone walls of Winchester Cathedral, England's first widely recognised queen, Mary I, married Philip ...

Within the 2,000-year-old Catholic Church, the pope sits at the top of a management structure of clergy – men who dedicate ... called the novendiale, a custom with its origins in ancient Rome.