The late pontiff’s health concerns in recent years led to contenders to succeed him foreseeing a papabile ahead of his death ...

An autobiography is not our private story, but rather the baggage we carry with us,” Pope Francis said in his recollections, ...

It is a beautiful church built in the style of early Spanish missions which pleases ... with worshipers in the common meal known as Communion, or as the Lord’s Supper. All baptized persons ...

Many of the Fathers of the early Church recognized that our hands could be a “throne” for receiving holy Communion—the Lord, the King of Kings. To make a throne for the Lord with our hands ...

Guests at the Vatican service were told of the Pope's call to "build bridges", as Trump and Zelensky were pictured meeting ...

The bells of St. Peter’s Basilica tolled to mark the end of the funeral of Pope Francis in Vatican City, where tens of ...

The early Church sought to evangelize in the major ... and then request ecclesiastical communion from the Pope. Major Archbishops are also elected by a synod of bishops of their rite, but then ...

He said Francis’ early comments about gays and lesbians weren’t followed up with any significant changes in church theology. “If you think about him as if he were the CEO of a big ...

Shimmering sterling silver communion cups and urns lined a white linen-covered table on the altar of the First Parish in ...

The Protestant Reformation began in the early 16th century, dividing the church into Catholic and Protestant denominations ... revelations to the people and which allows them to enter in communion ...

Q: Many Christian readers, fresh off their Easter Communion services, wrote to me to ask me about the actual Christian belief about the bread and wine turning into the body and blood of Christ.