Far from the Sistine Chapel where cloistered cardinals will cast votes, people are placing bets on who will be chosen as the ...

Few, if any, Latin Americans show up on the speculative lists of who might be elected as the supreme pontiff, or “papabile.” ...

Casa Santa Marta is abuzz with workers, engineers, and Vatican officials transforming the guesthouse that was the residence ...

Catholics can (and do!) debate whether Pope Francis was an effective evangelizer. But we can say for sure that he followed ...

The Gospel readings of this week’s daily liturgies remind us that the Eucharist is a participation in the resurrection of ...

Over the past twenty-two years of my life, having attended Mass almost every week, I have surely heard the phrase “The ...

I never knew how much I wanted to go to Rome until I got there.

To the crowd that has gathered to observe him and ask him questions about how to do God’s work, Jesus offers a stirring line: ...

Francis always encouraged me in our attempt to move forward as an ecumenical community and in welcoming young people from ...

The cardinals have asked Catholics to pray for them and the conclave. What exactly should we be praying for? And should we be ...

Pope Francis was not afraid of messiness. That seems to have been part and parcel of his pastoral freedom, charging into ...

Peter Beer is head of research and development at the Institute of Anthropology, Interdisciplinary Studies on Human Dignity and Care at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.