Earlier this month, Pope Francis became the first pope — indeed, the first Western leader — to visit South Sudan. Amid an enthusiastic welcome, more than 100,000 people attended his papal Mass ...

Church must offer an alterative to contemporary values if it wants to help teenagers grappling with anxiety and frightening ...

Pope Francis has had an eventful decade in the chair of Peter, but one aspect of his papal ministry may have gone relatively ...

The Holy See's ambassador to South Sudan has said the Catholic Church must “step up its game” to help the people build peace.

On his election 10 years ago, Pope Francis was hailed as a voice of modernisation. Has his papacy made a difference to health ...

Pope Francis called for peace on Friday as he met delegations of the South Sudan government and the hold-out opposition group, after the mediation adjourned the peace talks in Rome, Italy.

For insight into how Pope Francis is viewed among those with different faiths, or none, NCR invited the presiding bishop of ...

(The Conversation) — Since Jorge Mario Bergoglio first stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as Pope Francis on ...

Pope Francis's most recent trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan highlight the importance of Africa in ...

Leaders of South Sudan's government and the armed opposition are to meet March 20-26 at the Rome headquarters of the ...

Before Pope Francis, many of these challenges were either ignored, spiritualised or papered over through moral platitudes.

Pope Francis asked tech leaders to measure the value of their innovations not in processing power or profit potential, but in ...