Pope Francis announced this week that he intends on having a much more simple funeral than those of his predecessors at the ...

As the Church’s liturgical year drew to a close, the Pope reflected on how Christian joy and love persist even amid global ...

Pope Francis has asked the Vatican to study whether the Catholic Church should classify "spiritual abuse" as a new crime in ...

In “a note of accompaniment” to the final document, the pope made clear that Catholic bishops throughout the world are to ...

Describing nihilism as “perhaps the most dangerous plague of today’s culture,” the pope told dicastery members their ...

Catholic voters swung behind Donald Trump in the election. But his and Pope Francis’ visions couldn’t be further apart on ...

is the new world, the eternal world, which God prepares for all by giving his life for our salvation.” On the Feast of Christ the King, Pope Francis celebrated Mass at the Vatican, marking the ...

Pope Francis has opted to be buried in a wooden ... The 87-year-old pontiff – who turns 88 next month – enacted a new set of liturgical rites aimed at modernizing the Catholic Church that ...

French President Emmanuel Macron invited Francis to come to Paris for the Dec. 8 reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral, but the pope will be leading a ceremony at the Vatican that day to install new ...