Pope Francis, who made history as the first Latin American papal leader and was considered to have a more progressive ...

Waste colonialism is an under-recognized yet far too prevalent practice, whereby developed nations export millions of tons of ...

The changes Francis brought to the papacy were more than skin deep. He opened the church to the outside world in ways none of ...

Pope Francis, the Catholic Church’s first Latin American pontiff, has died, the Vatican announced on April 21, 2025. He was ...

Despite being the head of the Catholic Church—an organization with estimated assets between $10 to $15 billion according to ...

Pope Francis was the 266th pontiff, having taken over from Pope Benedict in 2013. Francis made history as the first pope ...

The Vatican’s health department, led by Dr. Andrea Arcangeli, confirmed that Pope Francis suffered a massive stroke that caused him to lapse into a coma. Despite efforts to stabilize him, he succumbed ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Francis leaves behind him a church still divided, but radically transformed. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — ...

Over the past two decades, the Argentinian photographer Irina Werning has traveled around Latin America with a specific ... dressed in traditional white blouses, gather at a table as their father ...

Pope Francis, who sought to be a bridge maker as he led the Catholic Church in a time of deep polarization, died Monday morning at the age of 88—a day after a surprise appearance in Peter’s Square on ...