Any American who takes the full range of Catholic social teaching seriously simply cannot be comfortable in either of our ...

Signs of the times.Pope Francis has raised the alarm over the Vatican's financial deficit, urging expense cuts, transparency, ...

The Pew Research Center has released the results of a survey of how Catholics in the U.S. and six Latin American countries ...

COMMENTARY: The Holy Father’s recent nod to the late Jesuit Father Pedro Arrupe, the controversial Father General of his ...

The Catholic Church’s ban on wigs in the 18th century was as revealing of attitudes towards disability as vanity and sanctity ...

Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Holy See's Secretary for Relations with States and International Organis ...

Paul VI and John Paul II, as well as Mother Teresa of Calcutta and Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was killed in 1980. An encyclical is the most important form of papal document. Francis has ...

On his flights, Pope Francis always travels with a printed image of the Virgin Mary taped near his window, at the front of ...

Pope Francis’ longest overseas journey yet proves there is great power in papal travel – and that it’s changing to meet the demands of the modern world.

Has the Catholic Church become too Pope-centric? Or too Pope-dependent, to put it another way. It wasn’t always so. These ...

Pope Francis engages with Jesuits in Indonesia, East Timor, and Singapore, discussing their missions, challenges, and the ...

If you want beaches and views, explore the south. If you need some intellectual and cultural stimulation, go north. That’s ...