I see the church as a field hospital,’ Pope Francis once said – not a place where superficial solutions will do much good.

Pope Francis has updated the procedures for investigating allegations of sexual abuse, expanding the rules of “Vos Estis” to ...

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 said in a recent interview: "There is no contradiction for a priest to marry. Celibacy in the western church is ...

Pope Francis has updated a 2019 church law governing clerical sexual abuse and extended it to include accountability for ...

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

Reuters reported that more than 30 African countries, including Uganda, already ban same-sex relations. But the new law ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...