Francis is also in a unique position, in that he follows two popes who had a more conservative view of what Vatican II ...

COMMENTARY: In the Western Hemisphere, the issue of migration seems to become rather more muted or nuanced once the United ...

A lengthy note by two Vatican dicasteries aims to prevent the line between humans and machines from becoming “blurred.” ...

The moral imperative to care for creation seems lost on conservative leaders and lawmakers, who support protecting human life ...

As Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox believers prayed this week for “Christian unity,” Jean-François Chiron sheds light on ...

By Maria Power (*) – Pope Francis has delivered a message ... that this encyclical will be known as the COVID-19 encyclical – and Francis himself acknowledges in paragraph 7 that this 45,000 ...

The pope’s message for the 59th World Day of Social Communications, observed on 1 June, is released on the feast day of Saint ...

One of the more interesting passages in Pope Francis’s television interview on Sunday was his statement that sins of the ...

The Catholic vice president managed to insult not only the hierarchy and Pope Francis, but agencies such as Catholic Relief ...

In this 184-page encyclical, Pope Francis sounds off his important message in the encyclical’s subtitle “Care for Our Common Home.”All are enjoined to live out our faith by caring for our ...

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

Discover Pope Francis' hopes for the future in his autobiography, 'Hope: The Autobiography,' released on Jan. 14.