It’s unmistakable that in many ways, Africa has been as much a headache as a backstop for the Francis papacy over the past 11 ...

Francis X. Maier’s book, True Confessions, arrives as an interpretive key to the Church in our time. An old saying warns that ...

Images: Zuma Press Composite: Mark Kelly Is Pope Francis trying to close the cafeteria? On an Easter Sunday appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Cardinal Wilton Gregory, archbishop of ...

A Fox News host has attacked Pope Francis after the pontiff called out climate change deniers during a television interview. During the exclusive interview with CBS Evening News anchor Norah O ...

Pope Francis published a letter on Thursday addressed to all parish priests in the world with his advice for building a missionary Church in which all the baptized share in the mission of ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has exposed the political "maneuvers ... precise moment Francis was considering calls to relax celibacy requirements and allow married priests in order to ...

Pope Francis has visited Venice and took part in a canal tour weeks after asking worshippers to 'pray for him' following a health battle. The head of the Catholic Church appeared in good spirits ...

Pope Francis greets pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for his general audience on Wednesday, April 10, 2024. (photo: Vatican Media) Matthew Santucci/CNA Vatican April 10, 2024 Pope Francis ...

On Wednesday, May 1, Pope Francis addressed an international audience in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican and reiterated the importance of faith in the Christian life as well as the need to ...

Pope Francis made his first trip out of Rome in seven months on Sunday with a visit to Venice that included an art exhibition, a stop at a prison and a Mass. Venice has always been a place of ...

Pope Francis has become the first pontiff to visit Venice’s contemporary art festival during a trip which saw him visit a female prison and rehabilitate the reputation of a pioneering American ...