Pope Francis sought to empower women and laity in synods, fueling conservatives' worry about LGBTQ+ inclusion and women's ...

Joseph, who is from an Nigerian- Irish Catholic background, said: "Pope Francis stood for everything that we thought the ...

More than 1,500 people packed into a cathedral in East Timor on Tuesday and an overspill of hundreds swarmed outside as one ...

After the Vatican announced the pontiff’s death, the news reverberated across the Chicago area, Naperville included.

The Catholic Church is preparing to choose a new pope, following the death of Pope Francis today at the age of 88. The ...

Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the acting head of the Catholic Church, spent most of his career in the U.S. before being called to ...

Pope Francis didn’t affirm same-sex marriage or lobby for ordaining women as priests. But he gently steered the Catholic ...

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Ever since Pope Francis died, I have been reflecting upon my time in Catholic school and the lessons I learned about service, ...

Pope Francis’ transformative vision for the American church made it more open, but also energized conservative resistance ...

In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent ritual: He would call the lone Catholic church in the Gaza ...

Meet the Irish-American Camerlengo and Italian dean who are in charge of administering the Church during this interim period.