VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Mercy – the cornerstone of Pope Francis’ teaching and ministry – must guide the Catholic Church through ...

Commenting on the historic moment April 26, Archbishop Gudziak said that, through the encounter, “Pope Francis is giving a ...

The meeting inside St. Peter’s Basilica marked the presidents’ first face-to-face meeting since a tense February Oval Office ...

He spent the rest of his pontificate going back out to those peripheries, traveling to more than 65 nations, preferring those that were poor, scarred by war, marginalized and forgotten. Then the ...

Cardinal Christophe Pierre, papal nuncio to the United States, reflected on Pope Francis’s legacy and the evangelizing ...

People pray during a Memorial Mass for Pope Francis at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C., on April ...

The exhibit, entitled “‘The Happiest Day of My Life’: Divine Mercy with Saint John Paul II and Saint Faustina,” expresses the ...

Amid papal mourning, an annual celebration of the Divine Mercy reminds the faithful that Easter joy triumphs over tears, with ...

The College of Cardinals decided Pope Francis’s funeral would be celebrated April 26 in St. Peter’s Square. In his final ...

Pope Francis was “a pope among the people, with an open heart toward everyone,” said Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of ...

Karl D. Bar-Lev, a retired U.S. Navy veteran who served for 17 years, also entered the Church at the Easter Vigil. Raised in ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, approaches the Petriano entrance of the Vatican next to ...