Again, we’re talking about ... and sexual predator, what he is accused of doing is too grotesque to describe. It is fair to say that Pope Francis did not handle the Rupnik case well at all, ...

Rome — Pope Francis, who challenged deeply rooted norms ... to the very highest levels of the Catholic Church. He was accused, at first, of being insensitive in his slow response to the crisis.

European Editor at Large Pope Francis, who died at 88 on Monday ... His critics, however, accused him of uttering fine words while continuing to preside over a hopelessly anachronistic institution ...

Pope Leo XIV is kicking off a weeklong celebration of Catholic clergy for the Holy Year. He has encouraged seminarians to be ...

His tenure as rector was again divisive, with critics accusing ... former nuncio to the United States, accused Pope Francis of negligence in handling allegations of sexual misconduct involving ...

Italian prelate Matteo Zuppi is pro-LGBTQ and made headlines when he was accused of holding ... conclave will gather again in actuality as the Vatican revealed that Pope Francis, 88, the leader ...

Pope Leo XIV defended press freedom and urged journalists not to tolerate any abuse in the Catholic Church on Saturday.

A landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling 10 years ago this month, on June 26, 2015, legalized same-sex marriage across the U.S.

But he was dogged by some high-profile cases where he seemed to side with accused priests. In 2013, Pope Benedict XVI resigned in the first such papal retirement in 600 years, and Francis was ...

His initial calls for action yielded little, and when the crisis exploded again ... the pope. Tensions escalated in 2017 when two close associates of Francis, in a Vatican-vetted journal, accused ...

Pope Francis, who rose from modest means in Argentina to become the first Jesuit and Latin American pontiff, who clashed bitterly with traditionalists in his push for a more inclusive Roman ...