I urge all of you, children, young people, adults, and the elderly, to participate actively in the common evangelizing ...

Pope Francis has called the Catholic Church in India a “beacon of hope,” and urged Indian bishops to prioritize the poor and the vulnerable in their ministry while encouraging them to open wide the ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Celebrating the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Pope Francis reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s willingness to accept a proposal for a common date for celebrating Easter ...

COMMENTARY: Liturgical vestments like copes, chasubles and dalmatics are part of the beauty of the liturgy, alongside church ...

An Italian priest has been excommunicated from the Catholic Church for saying Pope Francis is not the real pope. Father Natale Santonocito, 61, parish priest of the San Cesareo Church south-east ...

God has not abandoned the Romani people even if it often seemed that the society and even Catholic Church had, Pope Francis said. "I am aware that your history has been marked by incomprehension, ...

Only one other pope in history, of the all 260+ who have ... good days and bad days” – that could have changed the Catholic church profoundly. It could have become the new normal.

ROME — Pope Francis has taken the remarkable step of dissolving ... the other way instead of accompanying the Argentine pontiff in his struggle for a Catholic Church without abuse.” It remains unknown ...

Pope Francis is taking the highly unusual decision to dissolve an influential Catholic group from Peru which has been plagued ...

"They are the strawberries on the cake, but there is need for more," Pope Francis said on the subject of women in the Catholic Church, on December 5, 2014 before the International Theological ...

“Hope is the mainstay that undergirds Pope Francis’ entire life and ... The Holy Father predicts, among other things, that the Catholic Church “will become increasingly universal and its ...

Pope Francis kicked off the first Saturday ... than existing as a mere habit or personality characteristic. The Catholic Church teaches that hope is one of the three theological virtues ...