With the death of Pope Francis on Monday, the College of Cardinals will soon have to make the difficult choice of who will ...

Novels and films that include or revolve around a conclave often include nefarious plotting, or at least politicking, and ...

One of Germany’s top canon lawyers, Thomas Schüller, says he expects a "difficult" conclave following the death of Pope ...

The church officially recognizes St. Peter, the first pope, as the longest-serving, with at least 34 years. However, many ...

Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) With dozens of parishes in the Buffalo Diocese filing formal plans to fight being merged or closed, an expert in Canon Law who has studied church consolidation, said the ...

"They locked the cardinals up behind closed doors, and then they put them on water and bread so that they would focus on the ...

It is part of SCOTUSblog’s 2020 Election Litigation Tracker, a joint project with Election Law at Ohio State. The “democracy canon” is a term coined in a 2009 law review article by UC Irvine election ...