Pope Francis has said he wants to give women greater leadership roles in the Roman Catholic Church. If he really wants to ...

A year and a half after two private citizens filed a criminal complaint against a Vatican official investigating a ...

One of the more interesting passages in Pope Francis’s television interview on Sunday was his statement that sins of the ...

Pope Francis on Thursday urged political, economic and business leaders at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos to keep ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - A special Wildcats jersey is returning to Lexington from Vatican City. In a video posted on Facebook, Father Jim Sichko got Pope Francis to sign a UK basketball jersey while on ...

Pope Francis appointed Father Anthony Ji Weizhong as bishop of Lüliang on Oct. 28, 2024, having approved Weizhong in the ...

Women religious are meant to be serving the poor, marginalized or vulnerable in society, not be working as servants to ...

Pope Francis warned Wednesday against a "chauvinistic mentality" in the Catholic Church, as he promoted a nun to head the executive administration of the tiny Vatican City state.

Pope Francis is taking the highly unusual decision to dissolve an influential Catholic group from Peru which has been plagued ...

Pope Francis on Sunday hailed the release of Cuban prisoners as a “gesture of great hope” that he prayed would be undertaken elsewhere, as he welcomed an agreement the Vatican helped facilitate as ...

Pope Francis is not expected to veto President Donald Trump's choice of a high-profile critic of his papacy as the next U.S.

The presence of the Lord always gives us this grace of not fearing,” the Holy Father said at his Jan. 22 general audience at ...