The black and white smoke that emerges from the Sistine Chapel during a papal conclave is part of a longstanding tradition — ...

At the end of each voting round, black smoke means a new pope has not yet to be selected, while white smoke indicates a new ...

Police officers, firefighters, law officials, first responders and others gathered May 6 at St. Patrick Catholic Church in ...

When a new pope is elected, there are two signs that mark that historic moment: the white smoke from the chimney of the ...

The wildflower for today is blue, the color most classical painters used for the apparel of the Mary, the mother of Jesus.

From conclave to “Habemus papam,” here’s what to know about the words and phrases that guide the process after a pope dies.

There's a song written by the jazz singer Billy Eckstine with Sid Kuller called "Blues, the Mother of Sin" that has always ...

Officially, street pigeons are not vermin, like rats, another species of barefoot city dweller, with which they are often ...

Napoleon Pelletier, a French Canadian, led the founding of St. Anne Shrine in the 1920s, and remnants of the Catholic enclave ...

There were two sisters. They were partners, queens, warriors who liberated Vietnam from the Han dynasty. They united coastal ...

The Pope, famous—perhaps foremost—for his insistence on simplicity and aversion to clerical glitz, wanted to be buried not at ...

World dignitaries and Catholic faithful attended Pope Francis’ funeral in St. Peter’s Square on Saturday. Despite the ...