Pope Francis said he believes the church should practice what it preaches. “It hurts me when I see a priest or nun with the latest-model car,” he recently said.

Pope Francis didn’t affirm same-sex marriage or lobby for ordaining women as priests. But he gently steered the Catholic Church in a more progressive direction while leading with compassion ...

As Pope Leo XIV approaches the 100-day mark of his papacy on Saturday, Mississippi’s Catholics are largely ecstatic about the ...

Pope Francis led the Catholic Church from March 2013 until his death, after a papal conclave elected him to succeed Pope Benedict XVI, who resigned as pope in February 2013. A member of the Jesuit ...

A Vatican opinion released shortly before Pope Francis died advises against public church listings of clergy members deemed ...

The first pope, Saint Peter, was born in the region known as present-day Israel. Around the year 97, Pope Saint Evaristus, also from the Middle East, took his place as the human head of the Church.

Pope Leo XIV will declare John Henry Newman a “doctor” of the church, bestowing one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors ...

With all that happened in the Catholic Church last month, we can be forgiven for missing the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si', Pope Francis’ encyclical on global warming. Pope Francis fell ill ...

An Israeli shell slammed into the compound of the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip, killing three people and wounding ...

Pope Francis died Monday at the age of 88, the Vatican announced. Here are some frontrunners to replace him. By The Associated Press •Published April 21, 2025•Updated on April 21, 2025 at 3:34 pm ...

Francis brought the popular archbishop of Manila to Rome to head the Vatican’s missionary evangelization office, which serves the needs of the Catholic Church in much of Asia and Africa.