As Pope Francis likes to say, reality is more important than ideas, so examining legitimate diversity among the churches will ...

An estimated 600,000 people packed a seaside park in East Timor for Pope Francis' Mass — a figure nearing half of the small ...

Chemist, author, and Roman Catholic theologian Michelle Francl-Donnay writes that it takes “a gritty grace” to embrace hope ...

Pope Francis presided over an open-air mass in Brussels on Sunday, capping a three-day visit to Belgium that grappled with ...

Calling on the world's bishops not to cover up any instance or form of abuse, Pope Francis said the evil of abuse must be ...

Tasitolu: The Vatican says some 600,000 people have attended Pope Francis' Mass in East Timor, or nearly half the country's ...

Cardinal Marc Ouellet challenged the church to worry less about creating something new, and more about treasuring what is ...

Pope Francis is traveling to Belgium this week, where he is in for a sober welcome. The once-staunchly Catholic country is ...

At the Catholic University of Leuven, Pope Francis heard pleas for women's ordination, welcome to LGBTQ people and a deeper ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include Pope John Paul II visiting Ireland, the death of George ...

Pope Francis is traveling to once-strong bastions of Christianity in the heart of Europe to try to reinvigorate a Catholic ...

After events in Luxembourg today, the Pope’s four-day trip will continue in Belgium, where he will visit three cities to mark ...