Some activities, such as prayer, are widespread. Others, such as fasting and lighting incense or candles, vary more by ...

A papal conclave blends the political and the spiritual, cardinals and theologians say. Here, in Catholic belief, is how the ...

Paul’s cry to the Philippian jailer is a model for the church to respond to suicide in an America plagued by deaths of ...

Several Catholic parishes called on the faithful to pray for the Conclave, in which the next pope will be chosen.During the ...