Technology should be used to improve people's lives and to connect people as members of one human family, Pope Francis said.

COMMENTARY: Let us heed the great pope’s oft-repeated words, “Be not afraid!” and with courage respond to his witness and intercession to make fully practical this call to holiness he spent his ...

Pope Francis has cleared the way for the canonizations of three blesseds: an Armenian Catholic archbishop martyred during the ...

In an April 1 update about the 88-year-old pontiff’s continued recovery, the Holy See Press Office said Pope Francis’ ...

Pope Francis has elevated the National Shrine of Mary Help of Christians in Parañaque City to the rank of minor basilica. The ...

God's forgiveness is the source of hope for the faithful, Pope Francis wrote. "Indeed, with his mercy, God transforms us inwardly, he changes our heart," he said in a message to priests celebrating ...

Cardinal Francis Leo, a two-time graduate of the University of Dayton, was recently appointed to be one of 21 new cardinals by Pope Francis. His path, influenced equally by his academic pursuits as ...

If they were trying to do this to an Islamic or Jewish group, this wouldn’t be allowed,’ the shepherd of Kansas City told ...

The Coadjutor Bishop for the Catholic Diocese of Meru in Kenya has prayed for the speedy recovery and "complete healing" of ...

The proclamation of the Year of St. Joseph by Pope Francis in December 2020 coincided with the 150th anniversary of the saint’s proclamation as patron of the universal Church by Blessed Pius IX ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) — Washington’s new archbishop, Cardinal Robert McElroy, encouraged Catholics at his installation Mass on Tuesday (March 11) to have hope and show mercy in a service that ...