The 40-page pastoral framework document highlights the urgent need to respond to Pope Francis’ call “to solidarity and ...

A living legend of the Vatican’s press corps, Mexican journalist Valentina Alazraki, has said Pope Francis is a keen ...

Here’s a look at the Vatican, also known as the Holy See, the spiritual and governing center of the Roman Catholic Church. Facts The full name of the country is State of Vatican City. It stands on ...

• Camosy: As you say, the encyclical itself was motivated in part by concern for new threats to human life that were emerging ...

Grech said the new phase’s goal “is to ensure that implementation does not happen in isolation, as if each diocese or eparchy ...

COMMENTARY: The synodal process is being positioned as a kind of capstone project for the entire Francis papacy.

The Vatican announced that Francis had additionally ... The prayer evoked the 2005 vigils when St. John Paul II was dying in the Apostolic Palace, but many of those on hand said they were praying ...

A historic Vatican II altar that had been dismantled at the former St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church in Cleveland, is now restored and back in use for community gatherings. "It looks great," said ...

ROME — Pope Francis has written and spoken at length about sickness, aging and death, and personally directed that his doctors provide the fairly detailed daily updates that have punctuated his own ...