Welcome to America magazine’s Conclave Podcast. Our editors are on the ground in Rome covering the conclave to elect the next ...

“I believe the Holy Spirit always intervenes in the choosing of the next pope,” the Rev. Halmar Adolis Calix, a priest from ...

Since the death of Pope Francis, lists of his possible successors have proliferated on social media and in newspapers. Should ...

In a pre-conclave meeting, an Italian cardinal, and backer of Cardinal Parolin as next pope, attacked Pope Francis for ...

As we prepare for a new papacy, an important question faces the church: What foundations do we inherit from Pope Francis’ ...

But the blues is a gateway to transcendence as well as temptation, the soul-deep cry of a people in exile, capable of ...

When the early Church celebrated the Eucharist, it certainly considered itself to be doing more than preaching and singing.

So much in life indeed seems to come in threes: “The past and the present and the future…faith and hope and charity.” There’s ...

Pope Francis’s recent death invites reflection on the office of Peter’s successor. This Sunday’s readings, meanwhile, are ...

Much of what you hear about who the next pope will be, spoken with enormous confidence by people in the know, is often ...

All 135 cardinals who are under the age of 80 and have not renounced the right to enter the conclave will have full voting ...

If we’re having trouble standing up, today’s responsorial psalm reminds us that no matter how bad things may seem, God always hears us. “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; and those who are ...