By signing the decree in the sainthood cause of the Georgia martyrs Jan. 27, the pope cleared the way for their beatification ...

In a decree signed on Jan. 27, Pope Francis formally recognized the five Franciscan missionaries as having been killed for ...

The president of Haiti’s transitional presidential council said that the Trump administration’s decisions to freeze aid ...

During his homily, Francis emphasized five key aspects of Christ’s mission that characterize the Gospel message.

Archaeologists have discovered an underground tunnel beneath Rua Augusta in Lisbon, buried during the earthquake of 1755.

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

Pope Francis on Jan. 19 denounced President Donald Trump's provisional plans to carry out a massive deportation of migrants ...

Pope Francis put his money where his mouth is this week when it comes to his constant appeals for couples to procreate, ...

Pope Francis put his money where his mouth is this week when it comes to his constant appeals for couples to procreate, ...

He's the first pope from Latin America, the first to take the name Francis and the first sitting pontiff to publish his ...

One of Francis’ lasting reforms will be his reshaping of the papacy to embrace simplicity and humility. In his new ...

Vatican Diary. The health chronicles of popes are an old practice, revealing—at least in certain eras—the frail constitution ...