Early voting in local elections ends Tuesday, and Election Day is May 3. Residents across the Houston area are casting their ...

One of Pope Francis’ enduring legacies was that he greatly expanded the diversity of cardinals who will elect his successor, ...

Cardinals electing Pope Francis's successor will have an easier time than many of their predecessors, who endured spartan conditions and were even locked up so long that some of them ...

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced that he is prioritizing the recently passed Senate Bill 37, which reforms faculty senates at Texas colleges and universities by "defining their role as advisory o ...

Though presidents and princes attended the Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Saturday, prisoners and migrants welcomed Francis’ ...

A papal conclave, the election of a new pope, tends to begin 15-20 days after a papal vacancy. Black or white smoke indicates ...