Pope Francis didn’t affirm same-sex marriage or lobby for ordaining women as priests. But he gently steered the Catholic ...

Most popes have come from Europe, even though there are countries in South and Central America, Asia, and Africa with ...

Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the acting head of the Catholic Church, spent most of his career in the U.S. before being called to ...

Meet the Irish-American Camerlengo and Italian dean who are in charge of administering the Church during this interim period.

Mourners young and old flocked to Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Northeast D.C.

He will go down in history as the 'pope for the marginalized,' a Catholic leader in Naples, said of Pope Francis ...

The Archdiocese of Baltimore celebrated the life of Pope Francis Monday evening at The Cathedral of Mary Our Queen.

In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent ritual: He would call the lone Catholic church in the Gaza ...

Pope Francis, a voice for the poor who overcame fierce resistance to reshape the Catholic Church, has died on Easter Monday, ...

After Pope Francis died at the age of 88, many are wondering about the process in which new popes are selected ...

Adherents are reviving old practices and growing more assertive in the battle for the future of the Church—and the nation.

Pope Francis passed away this morning at 88 years old. Director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life ...