ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (RNS) — On a papal visit largely absorbed by the global concerns of this central Asian country’s two superpower neighbors, China and Russia, the pope shifted the focus ...
His Holiness the Pope’s September four-day visit to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia was an inspiration to Mongolia’s tiny Catholic community, as well as proof of the religious freedom the country’s ...
Pope Francis soared high in three different ways on the penultimate day of his four-day visit to Mongolia. He did so, first of all, by celebrating the first public Mass in the history of ...
ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia--Pope Francis on Saturday praised Mongolia’s tradition of religious freedom dating to the times of its founder, Genghis Khan, as he opened the first-ever papal visit to the ...
The overture Pope Francis made to China earlier this month while he was in Mongolia was "well received" by Beijing's ...
The group of five conservative cardinals, including Joseph Zen, the retired archbishop of Hong Kong, asked Pope Francis to ...
The group of five conservative cardinals, including Joseph Zen, the retired archbishop of Hong Kong, asked Pope Francis to ...
Pope Francis has installed 21 new Cardinals, continuing his practice of fundamentally changing the makeup of the body that ...
The “green pope” denounced the scale of emissions from high-consumption cultures and argued that the world’s poor were paying ...
In Pope Francis' new global church, the Vatican pastime of predicting the next pope gets increasingly trickier.
FILE - Pope Francis, sitting in front of a replica of the icon 'Maria Salus populi romani'', addresses the participants into "Together", a vigil prayer for the Synod of Bishops with church leaders in ...
Even before it kicked off this year's synod was already historic: It's the first time that women and laypeople are being allowed to vote — though 80% of participants are still bishops, and thus men.
