The pope said “the climate of dialogue between the two Churches has lost the acrimony of the past and today allows us to hope ...

Pope Francis met with a group of transgender and intersex Catholics, along with LGBTQ+ allies and a medical doctor ...

Pope Francis asked that the cardinals embody “the three attitudes with which an Argentinean poet—Francisco Luis ...

On Sept 16, members of the media were given a tour of the pontiff’s lodgings at St Francis Xavier Retreat Centre in Punggol, which gave a hint of the man beneath the mitre. The Pope was housed ...

Happiness is not found in material things but in God himself, who shows us the joy found in making our lives a gift for others, Pope Francis said in his Sunday Angelus address. “Let us remember ...

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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 ...

Three U.S. cardinals who met with Pope Francis aren't saying what was on the agenda. A likely topic, writes NCR's Michael ...

It's not the figurehead you'd expect for the universal basic income movement, which is mostly driven by tech CEOs in Silicon Valley, but it's the one with by far the most followers: Pope Francis.

Pope Francis on Friday slammed both U.S. presidential candidates for what he called anti-life policies on abortion and ...

A Personal Portrait of Pope Francis, Michael Higgins makes a compelling apology for the Argentina-born pontiff's plans to ...

Pope Francis received a rapturous welcome from the tiny Southeast Asian nation of East Timor, one of the world’s most ...