In 2013, a Charleston women celebrated Mass with Pope Francis. Carmen Schachte, who is Puerto Rican, is proud of the 1st ...

If the coming conclave chooses someone who lets Pope Francis’ torch dim rather than carry it forward, it would be a global ...

There will be no catharsis from this narrative of ambition, idealism, talent, energy, and charm that led to nearly absolute ...

The Archbishop of the Archdiocese of San Juan, Roberto González Nieves, highlights the pontiff's closeness to the island, ...

Thank you for trying to make the Church and the world better ... love first until your last moments on this earth.” Puerto Rican rapper Residente put up a photo of a young Francis in an ...

His followers saw him as symbolizing the church's open arms, meeting people where they were ... When Nieves-Reyes was packing ...

As a prominent member of church panels, he supported debt relief ... and as president of the Catholic University of Puerto Rico in Ponce. In 1981, Pope John Paul II established the Diocese of ...

Parishioners from area churches, including the Most Holy Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ in the border community of Rio Rico, Arizona, were also there. They were joined by staff members and ...