The Christian misfits did not lead comfortable lives. For this reason, among others, they tended to make others uncomfortable ...

Pope Francis indicated that the Catholic Church was willing to accept a common date for celebrating Easter in the West and ...

Celebrating the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Pope Francis reaffirmed the Catholic Church's willingness to accept a ...

referencing Fratelli Tutti (All Brothers), his 2020 encyclical “on fraternity and social friendship.” Further reading: 'Renewal and transformation of the world': Pope Francis opens the Jubilee ...

The Catholic Church has its own history of prophetic voices using the moral authority of the priesthood to remind political ...

He's the first pope from Latin America, the first to take the name Francis and the first sitting pontiff to publish his memoirs since the 15th century. Pope Francis' autobiography, Hope, reaches ...

The pope, who now often uses a wheelchair due to knee and back pain, says: “The Church is governed using the head and the heart, not the legs.” Francis, originally from Argentina and the first ...

Not even the Pope can resist the temptation. So this month Pope Francis, the first Latin American and the first Jesuit to head the Catholic Church, goes where other pontiffs have not. Hope ...

Day-of-release blog posts are likely not the best place to attempt – or look for – considered commentary on so significant a magisterial event as a papal encyclical ... it turns out the Pope is ...

Pope Francis on Thursday expressed concern about “the increasingly concrete threat of a world war at a New Year’s reception for foreign ambassadors to the Holy See. The head of the Catholic ...

His remarks align with Pope Francis' encyclical Laudato Si', which frames environmental stewardship as a moral obligation. Then-Bishop of San Diego Robert Walter McElroy poses during a meeting at ...

In his Sunday Angelus address, Pope Francis encouraged Christians to be “messengers of hope” in the jubilee year by saying “‘yes’ to life.” Umbrellas dotted St. Peter’s Square on the ...