The most significant part of the law, a permanent version of a 2019 measure, may be its impact on the “lay faithful,” who ...

Pope Francis on March 25 made permanent his 2019 experimental law on clergy sex abuse and expanded the law to include lay ...

The Catholic Church is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis's pontificate with a smattering of messages from the ...

The Vatican and Pope Francis unveiled a new slate of legislation on Saturday that updates existing rules within the Catholic Church to penalize coverups of sexual abuse and hold perpetrators ...

Pope Francis said emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning could be beneficial to society if they respect human dignity.

An AI expert told Insider that AI-generated images sometimes have telltale signs such as a "very distinctive plasticky ...

The Vatican has published updated rules for fighting against sexual abuse of minors and vulnerable adults, expanding measures ...

Pope Francis updated the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse decree, which was originally put forth in 2019 to stop abuse caused ...

Pope Francis on Saturday updated a 2019 church law aimed at holding senior churchmen accountable for covering up sexual abuse cases, expanding it to cover lay Catholic leaders and reaffirming that ...

Some say the Jesuit pope causes confusion because of his unpredictability, but he is actually consistent and predictable when ...

For insight into how Pope Francis is viewed among those with different faiths, or none, NCR invited the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, an atheist, a Muslim scholar and a rabbi to ...