What's the deal with papal infallibility? Can the pope modify any church teaching he so desires, and Catholics would have to obey? Can he make abortion OK? What about worshipping Satan? —Gabriel ...

Like many native Chicagoans, I have been struggling recently with a crisis of faith. Raised Catholic, and even attending the last high school preparatory seminary (Quigley North), I was raised to ...

Following the death of Pope Francis, cardinals from across the Catholic world will gather early next month to elect the next leader of the church. Some of the questions surrounding the next conclave ...

Infallibility. Immunity. Health care. Pope Benedict XVI is expected to only have two of these things upon his retirement next week. If you had any questions about the pope, like if we can still call ...

So, it is probably pointless to hope that the next head of the Catholic Church will be apolitical. But perhaps it is not too much to hope that he will be better informed and less careless than his ...

Who can blame President Trump for seeing himself as worthy of being the next pope? Our behavior has enabled this expectation. Republicans in Congress taught him that he won’t be expelled from office ...