The pope didn’t actually wear that great jacket, but a lot of people were ready to believe he did. Being alive and on the ...

I see the church as a field hospital,’ Pope Francis once said – not a place where superficial solutions will do much good.

The most significant part of the law, a permanent version of a 2019 measure, may be its impact on the “lay faithful,” who ...

Pope Francis on March 25 made permanent his 2019 experimental law on clergy sex abuse and expanded the law to include lay ...

Pope Francis permanently decreed Saturday an updated version of Vos Estis Lux Mundi, his landmark legislation to counter sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. The decree promulgated March 25 ...

The Vatican and Pope Francis unveiled a new slate of legislation on Saturday that updates existing rules within the Catholic Church to penalize coverups of sexual abuse and hold perpetrators ...

Posters calling on Pope Francis to stop his crackdown on the old Latin Mass were plastered around the Vatican on Tuesday, in the latest display of conservative opposition to the pontiff.

Pope Francis on Saturday updated a 2019 church law aimed at holding senior churchmen accountable for covering up sexual abuse cases, expanding it to cover lay Catholic leaders and reaffirming that ...

Some say the Jesuit pope causes confusion because of his unpredictability, but he is actually consistent and predictable when ...

ROME—The Vatican on Saturday published new legislation that extends to lay leaders of Catholic organizations the existing rules for investigating bishops over sex abuse or its coverup.

For insight into how Pope Francis is viewed among those with different faiths, or none, NCR invited the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, an atheist, a Muslim scholar and a rabbi to ...