At Masses across Rome and socioeconomic lines, Catholics prayed the next pope focuses on poverty and peace days before the ...

By Elizabeth Dias Elizabeth Dias, the national religion correspondent for The Times, reported from palaces and churches in Rome for this article. Follow live updates on the conclave to elect a new ...

Members of Catholic women's group, Women's Ordination Conference, hold flares of pink smoke calling for gender equality in the Catholic Church and in protest of the male-only conclave, Rome, May 7 ...

The Church's credibility depends on real accountability, transparency, and action rooted in justice.' In a parallel gathering, nearly 900 leaders of women's religious orders met in Rome this week ...

Women from across San Diego are welcome to attend the Village Church annual Spring Luncheon ... Hall at 6225 Paseo Delicias in Rancho Santa Fe. The guest speaker, Michelle Le Beau, is a senior ...

clean and serve upon them in the Santa Marta guesthouse. In the global church as a whole, women have begun to take some senior lay roles, a process that accelerated a little under Pope Francis's ...

It’s been almost a half a century since questions could be shut down with the verity: “Is the Pope Italian?” In that time, ...

Members of a Catholic women's group lit pink smoke flares on a hill behind the Vatican on Wednesday in protest against gender inequality in the Church, hours before cardinals gathered in the Sistine ...

They will remain in seclusion from the public until the next Bishop of Rome is selected. (Photo courtesy of Sala Stampa della Santa Sede) The keyword floating the streets of Rome right now is ...

The 69-year-old Chicago native is the first American pope and is seen as a diplomat in the church. "This is the first greeting of the risen Christ. May the peace be with you," Leo said in Italian ...