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 the president-elect and Pope Francis’ visions couldn’t be ...

Carlo Acutis, born to Italian parents in London, was a talented web designer who died from leukemia in Italy at just 15 years ...

Pope Francis will canonize Blesseds Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati next year and that the Vatican will host a world ...

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 ...

Among the changes, the new rites eliminate the practice of placing the pope on an elevated ... not of a powerful man of this world." Since his election in 2013, Francis has consistently ...