The pope’s address came on the 10th anniversary of two papal documents that aimed to make the Catholic Church’s marriage ...

A priest was excommunicated from a parish in Livorno in January last year for calling Pope Francis a “usurper” in a New Year’s Eve homily, which marked the first anniversary of the death of the pope’s ...

Francis’ willingness to suppress the movement outright contrasts with the decision taken by his predecessor, Pope Benedict ...

Pope Francis has confirmed the existence of documents detailing clergy abuse and corruption within the Catholic Church, ...

Richard Williamson, an ultra-traditionalist Catholic bishop whose denial of the Holocaust created a scandal in 2009 when Pope ...

Pope Francis has dissolved a Catholic religious community with members across South America and the United States, following ...

Various videos claim Pope Francis's successor has been appointed, but that's not how a new bishop of Rome is chosen. How does ...

One could argue, as I do, that any large-scale human interaction tends to involve politics – in the sense of trying to ...

Pope Francis accepted the resignation of the eighth Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, Daniel Nicholas DiNardo, on Monday, ...

Francis previously said that Trump cannot be a Christian if he plans to build a wall to keep migrants from Mexico out.

Cuba has long tied prisoner releases to appeals from the Vatican, with thousands of prisoners released ahead of each of the ...

Francis is also in a unique position, in that he follows two popes who had a more conservative view of what Vatican II ...