This year's elections will be crucial to determining the country’s destiny, the bishops said.

Few Catholics, and even fewer Jesuits, ever imagined there would be a Jesuit pope.

On the final day of the conclave, Twitter reported 130,000 tweets per minute.

Cheers of “Francesco! Francesco! Francesco!” resounded throughout the square.

Cardinal Francis has become the first pope in 600 years to receive his predecessor’s blessing.

The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine will meet with the nation’s theological societies on March 16 at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. • Three Republican House members on March 5 introduced a bill to protect the conscience rights of health care workers and e