Pope Francis has tapped Bishop Robert Francis Prevost, a Chicago native who currently leads the Diocese of Chiclayo in Peru, to take over the Dicastery for Bishops.
Pope Francis heads to the war-torn African nations of the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan this week, where the church has long been on the frontlines of relief efforts amid war, poverty...
Pope Francis will further cement his legacy as an advocate for the suffering and marginalized this week as he heads to Africa for the fourth time, visiting the ravaged nations of the Democratic...
Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra’s testimony is considered especially crucial to the defense case, since theoretically it could undercut the credibility of the star witness for the prosecution, Italian...
In a new, wide-ranging interview with the Associated Press, Pope Francis spoke out on several hot-button issues such as abuse and relations with China and called the ongoing ‘Synodal Path’ reform...
In the latest development amid an ongoing showdown between the Vatican and the German bishops, three top Vatican officials nixed the proposal for a new legislative body governing the church in...
Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, a top papal aide and organizer of Pope Francis’s Synod of Bishops on Synodality, has said current tensions in Catholicism are nothing to worry about, but that...
Pope Francis Sunday celebrated a special Mass marking the Day of the Word of God, during which he conferred the ministry of lector on seven lay people and said the Gospel is intended primarily for...
Ahead of this upcoming visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, Pope Francis gave an interview in which he condemned the exploitation of the African continent and said he was not...
After a deadly attack on a Pentecostal church in northeastern Congo killed nearly 20 people over the weekend, Pope Francis has conveyed his sorrow and closeness to the families of the dead and...