Pope Francis, controversial head of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics and LGBTQ ally, died early on Easter Monday from a cerebral hemorrhage.

While he did not celebrate Mass or wash the feet of inmates, Pope Francis made his customary Holy Thursday visit to a ...

Since the pope left the hospital, he had seemed different, writes NCR's Vatican correspondent Christopher White. That change ...

When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires stood on the balcony of St Peter’s in Rome after being elected Pope on 13 ...

As Catholics observed Holy Week in the third week of April, Calapan Bishop Moises Cuevas reached out to those often forgotten ...

Francis was the first pope from the Americas, and the first non-European for more than 1,200 years. Two weeks after his ...

A Haggadah, meaning “telling,” is a fundamental Jewish text used to follow the order of the ritual Passover Seder meal, where ...

A good example of this is post-apartheid South Africa promoting reconciliation through the principle of “ubuntu” (I am because we are; my humanity is tied to yours). Leaders like Nelson Mandela and ...

Tom Burke, pastor of Saints Joachim and Anne Catholic Parish, washes the feet of soon-to-be new members of the parish at Holy ...

Parishioners washed each other’s feet during the Maundy Thursday mass at Holy Cross church in Santa Cruz this week, as part ...

Thursday was the annual washing of the feet for Archbishop Gregory Aymond. For at least 10 years, he's been going to Orleans ...