Pope Francis was raised in the city’s middle-class Flores neighborhood from the mid-1930s through the ’50s, a time period ...

However, the real-life selection of the current Pope was the subject of the Academy Award-nominated drama The Two Popes. The ...

In the first footnote of the encyclical ‘Dilexit nos,’ Pope Francis reveals he drew inspiration for the first chapter from ...

‘We must do something’: Pope offers Vatican refuge to Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s former leader, has been detained by the military since it overthrew her ...

The diocesan tribunal will conclude its inquiry into the life, virtues, and holiness of Father Pedro Arrupe, SJ, with a ceremony on Nov. 14 in Rome.

Francis has alienated and dismayed conservatives and traditionalists within the church while emboldening and giving hope to a large swath of Catholics who are craving reform. In a radical move late ...

Twice in past years, I hopped a flight to Rome in order to cover one of the most arcane, storied and secretive events in human history: the election of a new pope. That event is also known as a ...

The pressures on liberation theology from within the Catholic Church eased when Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina became Pope Francis in 2013. In 2016 he, on the recommendation of the MST ...

Pope Francis' yearslong process to reform the Catholic Church closed Saturday with recommendations that fell short of giving women more equity as hoped but reflected the pope's aims for a church ...