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

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 ...

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

By Deborah Castellano Lubov Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Holy See's Secretary for Relations with States and ...

Pope Francis is still widely popular in several ... 2013 to attend the conclave that elected him as the successor to Benedict XVI on March 13. Analysts and Vatican insiders have said that the ...

Pope Francis has pledged to root out the “scourge” of clerical sexual abuse after Belgium’s prime minster urged him in unusually frank terms to take concrete action. Francis was addressing ...

Before Francis in 2013, Popes Paul VI, John Paul II, and Benedict XVI had already visited Cagliari, her sanctuary. But the pope also knows that this protector of sailors and travelers inspired the ...

The liberation theology and the option for the poor picked up under Pope Paul VI (1963/1978 ... currently Pope Benedict. The first instruction was negative but the second a bit more positive ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Belgium’s prime minister has blasted Pope Francis for the Catholic Church’s horrific legacy of clerical ...

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

Fabian was reputedly selected as bishop because a dove landed on him, the first historical reference to a method of papal succession. Moreover, Cornelius was made bishop by the choice of God and of ...