Methods of further incorporating “Laudato Si’,” Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical on care of creation, into the life of the ...

Supreme Court allows Virginia to purge 1,600 names from voter rolls ...

Twice in past years, I hopped a flight to Rome in order to cover one of the most arcane, storied and secretive events in human history: the election of a new pope. That event is also known as a ...

Pope Francis' yearslong process to reform the Catholic Church closed Saturday with recommendations that fell short of giving women more equity as hoped but reflected the pope's aims for a church ...

In a surprising move at the conclusion of the Synod on Synodality on Saturday evening, Pope Francis ratified the final report, approved its immediate publication, and said he will not publish a ...

In 2018, Pope Francis decreed in the apostolic constitution Episcopalis Communio that reformed the Synod of Bishops that the pope has the authority to approve and promulgate the final document, at ...

But the question of female ordination had been taken off the table and relegated to a separate study group that will present its findings to Pope Francis next summer. The final document ...

multi-faith unity and women in leadership — issues that of course bedevil Pope Francis’ reign in the present day. But for all these high-minded gestures at topicality, Conclave isn’t really ...

“The symbol of the heart has often been used to express the love of Jesus Christ; some have questioned whether this symbol is still meaningful,” Pope Francis writes his new encyclical Dilexit Nos (He ...

Pope Francis at the first Mass of the new year in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Jan. 1, 2024. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME – Pope Francis in a new encyclical stressed the social ...

Carlo Maria Viganò, an archbishop that was excommunicated by Pope Francis, in a new letter addressed to American voters wrote that Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee ...

The Pope issued his fourth encylical this week (Picture: Shutterstock) Pope Francis issued his fourth encyclical – a letter to all of the bishops – denouncing a world that ‘is losing its ...