Inside the secretive meeting, cardinals will use an array of objects, many steeped in tradition, as they elect the next pope. By Jonathan Wolfe The conclave to elect the next pope is now underway ...

Gen. Christopher T. Donahue, commanding general of U.S. Army Europe and Africa, led Memorial Day tributes Sunday at the Somme ...

The scars of conflict run deep in Sri Lanka, a nation that endured decades of brutal civil war. As we reflect upon this ...

The sacred water world of the ancient Greeks The Greeks had several water gods that reigned over the oceans, seas, rivers and ...

The remarkable 1500-year-old Biblioteca Capitolare in Verona is widely viewed as the world’s oldest continuously operating ...

The conclave of May 7–8 has yet to reveal all its secrets. But two weeks after the election of Leo XIV, our reporters in Rome ...

Due to deliberate misrepresentation of facts and false information, White people had deceived many ignorant and learned people as well in the world that they had originated every good thing that ...

This is a historic day for the United States, and we will pray for him as he begins the sacred work of leading ... believed the cardinals would elect a European successor. But cardinals voting ...

Top Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev has responded to Trump warning that Vladimir Putin is "playing with fire." ...

Robert Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, was born on September 14, 1955, in Chicago, Illinois. He was sent to Peru in 1985, where he began a transformative chapter of his life. Assigned to the ...

They bowed before the altar and took their places before taking an oath of secrecy and shutting the Sistine Chapel ... prepare to withdraw from the outside world for their secret and sacred task ahead ...

Europe is marking one of its most joyous days in history. The 80th anniversary of the end of World War II on the continent ...