Both critics and followers agree the pope made significant, lasting changes to the Catholic Church and its role in the world.

A new pope will be selected to lead the Catholic Church following the death of Pope Francis. The pope is chosen during a ...

Pope Francis sought to make the church more welcoming, global and collegial, after his predecessors adopted more doctrinaire ...

With Pope Francis' death Monday, April 21, a pontificate marked by a desire for reforms aimed at restoring the church’s ...

After years in Protestant churches, I found in Catholicism a deeper tradition, a firmer foundation, and a call to holiness I ...

The pope’s traditional blessing, “urbi et orbi,” was read by Archbishop Diego Ravelli, but Pope Francis later toured St.

For decades, the share of American Catholics declined in the face in secularization. But in recent years, those numbers have ...

His election reflected a broader geographical shift in the church. Although the Vatican has been Catholicism’s spiritual and ...

The temptation is clear if the left is a cultural wrecking ball, why not wield a righteous hammer and crush them ...

The most socially conscious New Dealer in the Roman Catholic hierarchy was raised to archiepiscopal ... With all the pomp and circumstance of his church’s ritual, he was enthroned as Archbishop ...

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A new presidential administration in Washington has opened up an unexpected geopolitical chasm putting U.S. bishops in an ...