Pope Francis urged the world's 1.4 billion Catholics to abandon the "mad pursuit" of money and instead devote themselves to ...

Advocates for a greater role for women in the Catholic Church say Pope Francis is failing their cause at a global meeting of ...

Rome's Caravita community has served as an unofficial parish for synod members from Australia, Great Britain, the United ...

Once criticized by Catholic conservatives and the Vatican, Gutiérrez and his emphasis on caring for the poor were ...

The Diocese of Providence is inviting the community to a farewell Mass for Archbishop Richard Henning, who will be leaving ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — On a brutal day for the frail and aging Pope Francis, the king of Belgium, its prime minister and the rector of the Catholic university that invited him here all ripped into the ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is asking forgiveness for a host of sins on the eve of the next phase of his big reform project. Francis led top cardinals in apologizing for everything from the destruction ...

Pope Francis, met with former Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, and former Palestinian Minister for Foreign Affairs, ...

Pope Francis took the unusual step this week of ... Regal and Bermúdez could not be reached for comment. But Bermúdez, in a YouTube video posted Thursday, called his expulsion unjustified ...

The new Bishop of Broome will be the third man in recent years to lead the huge diocese which covers the Kimberley.

On Friday, flying back to Rome from a lengthy trip to Asia, Pope Francis criticized both U.S. presidential candidates for what he called anti-life policies on abortion and migration. He advised ...

The Chinese government says it has agreed with the Vatican to extend a provisional agreement on the appointment of Catholic bishops in China for four more years. The 2018 agreement had been extended ...