COMMENTARY: The newly retired Church leader’s greatest contribution was his work as the principal drafter/editor of the ...

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

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Women religious are meant to be serving the poor, marginalized or vulnerable in society, not be working as servants to ...

A cross containing dirt stained with the blood of Sister Dorothy Stang, a U.S. member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur ...

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, a Dominican theologian who helped write the Catechism of the Catholic Church, led the Vienna ...

Pope Francis has taken the remarkable step of dissolving a Peruvian-based Catholic movement, the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae ...

The pope’s comments provided the latest indication of a potential rekindling of frictions between the Vatican and the next ...

ROME -- Pope Francis said Donald Trump 's plans to impose mass deportations of immigrants would be a "disgrace," as he weighed in on the incoming U.S. president's pledges nearly a decade after calling ...