American Catholic conservatives hoping that the next pontiff is more to their liking ideologically than 86-year-old Pope Francis are likely to be disappointed, according to a number of experts in ...
Pope Francis on Wednesday encouraged people to look for the quiet goodness in the world, even when the tendency is to pay more attention to failure and scandal. “Just think how many hidden seeds ...
Pope Francis admitted during a Monday speech that priests and nuns watch the "vice of porn," and said that "the devil enters from there and weakens the soul." Francis made the comment during to ...
Think of someone who has hurt you and ask God for the strength to forgive that person, Pope Francis told the crowd gathered in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday. Speaking from a window of the Vatican ...
ROME — During a recent encounter between Pope Francis and Jesuit priests in Lisbon, one of them seemed to commiserate with the pontiff through a question. During a sabbatical in the United ...
Pope Francis greets Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, president of the Italian bishops' conference, during a meeting with representatives of most of Italy's 227 dioceses and their programs to encourage the ...
St. Kateri Tekakwitha teaches us to live an ordinary holiness and to confront the suffering of life with patience, Pope Francis said on Wednesday. At his weekly public audience Aug. 30, the pope ...
Pope Francis significantly widened the scope of the next planned meeting of the world's Catholic bishops, postponing the event by one year to allow for periods of consultation in every local ...
VATICAN CITY, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Pope Francis has lamented what he called a "reactionary" Catholic Church in the United States, where he said political ideology has replaced faith in some cases.
In August, Pope Francis was in Portugal for World Youth Day. During his apostolic journey, he met with several groups and conducted different dialogues on varying topics. Two of his topics ...
Pope Francis arrives in Mongolia for first visit by a pontiff as Vatican relations with Russia and China remain strained ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia -- Pope Francis arrives in Mongolia for first visit ...
Pope Francis urged Russian youth to become "sowers of seeds of reconciliation" amid the country's ongoing invasion of Ukraine. On Friday, the pontiff delivered remarks remotely for hundreds of ...
