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

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

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

Pope Francis’ yearslong process to reform the Catholic Church has ended with recommendations that fall far short of giving ...

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

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

Pope Francis, background center, poses with the participants to the second session of the 16th General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops that gather in the Paul VI hall, at the Vatican on Saturday, Oct ...

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

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

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

The approximately 30,000-word encyclical draws extensively from Scripture and tradition, featuring insights from St. Thérèse ...

The encyclical, issued on Oct. 24, examines the transformative power of Jesus’ heart as a font of healing for a divided world ...