Thanks to a $10 million grant, St. Charles and three other U.S. Catholic seminaries will provide training and ongoing ...

Despite cannabis's central role in Rastafarian worship, adherents face persistent criminalization and face a minimum 10-year ...

Your mother would like a word about some unfinished business -- your Blessed Mother, that is, who in 1925 asked the faithful to fulfill the First Saturdays devotion. It's a request that ...

Dairy workers are reluctant to leave the farms where they live and work, prompting vendors, health care workers and a priest to come to them.

Most people identify one special chalice as the only Holy Grail. Others point out that the Holy Grail legends composed in Europe during the 12th to 15th centuries enumerate more than ten different ...

Royalty-free licenses let you pay once to use copyrighted images and video clips in personal and commercial projects on an ongoing basis without requiring additional payments each time you use that ...

After just four votes, white smoke has been seen billowing from the Sistine Chapel's chimney, meaning a new pope has been elected. We don't yet know who has won the vote with the new pontiff, but he ...

Thousands of onlookers have gathered in Vatican City, eagerly awaiting the opportunity to get a first look at the Catholic Church's new pope. But just how long will they need to stand around waiting?

Stoves used in a complex, but not quite ancient, tradition have arrived in the Sistine Chapel in Rome. In a few days, they will be used to generate smoke that will mark the progress of the conclave in ...

The movie "Conclave" paints a mostly accurate picture of the Roman Catholic process of electing a new pope, save for an implausible storyline involving a cardinal selected in secret being able to vote ...

A new Pope will soon be elected following the death of Pope Francis at the age of 88. The process of selecting a new leader for the Catholic Church is highly secretive and involves those eligible to ...

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