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, ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Peter's Square in the presence of 15,000 people, the Pope again gave thanks to God for having elected him as Peter's successor, and explained why he chose the name of Benedict. The Holy Father ...

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

Rome — Pope Francis weighed in Friday on the options for voters in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, indicating to reporters on the papal plane as he returned from a marathon Asia trip that ...

Pope Francis believes American voters must choose “the lesser of two evils” when it comes to picking between presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump this November. When asked ...