Former Roman Catholic Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano penned an open letter urging American Catholics to support former ...

Pope Francis' yearslong process to reform the Catholic Church closed Saturday with recommendations that fell short of giving ...

Pope Francis delivered a homily during the closing Mass for the Synod of Bishops in St. Peter's Basilica Oct. 27.

Pope Francis has issued the fourth encyclical of his papacy, denouncing a world that “is losing its heart” during times of ...

The left-leaning ethos of the synod was perhaps most clear on Oct. 24, when Argentine Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez, ...

With Pope Francis a few weeks away from his 88th birthday, the plotting for his successor is well underway at the Vatican.

"I do not intend to publish an apostolic exhortation. What we have approved is enough," Pope Francis said. Instead, he ...

In a departure from usual practice, Pope Francis has announced he will not issue a postsynodal apostolic exhortation, ...

Today's Church is entrenched in its positions and somewhat deaf to the world. For Pope Francis, it resembles Bartimaeus, the ...

In an encyclical titled “He Loved Us,” Francis draws on spiritual themes in the hopes of helping people find deeper meaning ...

Pope Francis has announced that the final Synod document will be adopted without traditional papal exhortation.

Pope Francis has issued the fourth encyclical of his papacy, denouncing a world that “is losing its heart” during times of ...