Pope Francis opens the Holy Year 2025, continues calls for peace, and addresses global challenges, emphasizing love, hope, ...

The pope, who turned 88 Dec. 17, mostly uses a wheelchair and presides over rather than concelebrates most public liturgies.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio was 17 years old when he first received his vocation to become a priest. It happened on Sept. 21, 1953 ...

Despite his removal, Bishop Joseph E. Strickland has remained an outspoken detractor of Pope Francis, both online and at ...

Bishop Strickland also led small "prayer protests" amid the annual U.S. Conference ... flowing from the Vatican under the ...

the culmination of a process of listening and prayer that he launched in the fall of 2021. In his homily at the synod’s opening Mass, Pope Francis said it was not a “parliamentary assembly,” but an ...

According to a research firm that regularly conducts a year-end survey on hope and optimism, Filipinos’ hope for what lies ...

The 2800-word text says that a “year of forgiveness and freedom” was declared every half-century by ancient Jewish ...

Archbishop of Toronto Francis Leo formally joined the College of Cardinals on Saturday, becoming one of five Canadians within ...