The Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez Lagos of Matagalpa said his “main pastoral priority” was closeness to his priests, in ...

Pope Francis has said he wants to give women greater leadership roles in the Roman Catholic Church. If he really wants to ...

The publication of the Vatican declaration Fiducia supplicans in December 2023, allowing the blessing of same-sex couples in ...

Passetto di Borgo, Rome’s historic papal escape route, reopened after years of restoration. Here's how to visit it.

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity began January 18. Once a major obstacle for other Christian churches, the primacy of ...

A cross containing dirt stained with the blood of Sister Dorothy Stang, a U.S. member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur ...

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, a Dominican theologian who helped write the Catechism of the Catholic Church, led the Vienna ...

Various videos claim Pope Francis's successor has been appointed, but that's not how a new bishop of Rome is chosen. How does ...

Pope Francis has taken the remarkable step of dissolving a Peruvian-based Catholic movement, the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae ...

The pope’s comments provided the latest indication of a potential rekindling of frictions between the Vatican and the next ...

ROME -- Pope Francis said Donald Trump 's plans to impose mass deportations of immigrants would be a "disgrace," as he weighed in on the incoming U.S. president's pledges nearly a decade after calling ...

In a Sunday television interview, Pope Francis emphasized that hope and forgiveness are at the root of the 2025 Jubilee.