Doctor of the Church relied on divine grace and the maternal care of the Virgin Mary to temper that vice and become a man of ...

In this area’s matrilineal culture, women have taken on new responsibilities in Catholic churches in the region, acting as ...

Constantly in the public eye, Pope Francis is instantly recognisable across the globe, and his likeness adorns t-shirts, mugs ...

"Each time a pope takes ill, the winds of a conclave always feel as if they are blowing," Francis writes in his new memoir, ...

The plan was to publish the pope's memoirs after his death, writes co-author Carlo Musso. But Francis decided to release the ...

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

About 10,000 people from 138 countries signed up to take part in the events for the special jubilee for writers, ...

Francis is also in a unique position, in that he follows two popes who had a more conservative view of what Vatican II represented. In Catholic theological terms, St. Pope John Paul II and Benedict ...

One of Francis’ lasting reforms will be his reshaping of the papacy to embrace simplicity and humility. In his new ...

Cardinal Koovakad, who was in the diplomatic service of the Holy See for 14 years, is part of the Syro-Malabar Church, one of ...

Pontiff says Church ‘governed using the head and the heart, not the legs’ as he discusses health problems in autobiography ...

The Sodalitium Christianae Vitae — which long based its U.S. presence in Colorado — on Monday confirmed the dissolution.