Pope Francis has long advocated for immigrants, refugees, and the vulnerable—but the Church, like other institutions, may ...

The first Catholic convert elected to the vice presidency has provoked an extraordinary string of conflicts within the church ...

The pope, in a previously unannounced move, came out to the square shortly before noon at the end of the celebration of a ...

Pope Francis' convalescence has revived memories of the painful end of John Paul II's life, highlighting the need to balance protecting his fragile health with keeping him in the public eye.

There are only seven women in the world currently given "the privilege of the white" while meeting the Pope: the seven current Catholic queens and princesses. Those royals are Spain's Queen Sofia ...

And some popes have closed their eyes to not just current events but past ones ... printing press and the Protestant Reformation. The Catholic Counter-Reformation, which took shape at the Council ...

The head of the Catholic Church returned home ... Pope is still very much in control, despite his current physical fragility. “At the end, Pope John Paul II was so unwell that it was said ...

The fact that we are celebrating together, it's of course, a joy because it is something which is reminding us that we are ...

There, the head of the Catholic Church ... state of the pope’s health had spurred speculation that he could step down, as his predecessor, Benedict XVI, did. The current hospitalization, the ...

At 103 years of age, Mexican Bishop José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra is a living witness to the history of the Catholic ...