As a crucial climate lawsuit heads to trial in Germany next week, experts say the case - brought by Peruvian farmer Saul ...

Transgender sex workers in Italy are praying for Pope Francis's recovery. They appreciate his compassionate support during ...

President Donald Trump's policy of deporting undocumented immigrants en masse has drawn the ire of Pope Francis. The Pope, in a letter to American bishops, took aim at Trump's policy, but ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, and Chicago-born Cardinals Robert Prevost and Wilton Gregory would be part ...

The Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life ordered the suppression Feb. 19, with Pope ...

Pope Francis, now hospitalized with severe respiratory issues, has been "broadly popular among the nation's Catholics throughout his tenure," according to multiple surveys conducted by Pew Research ...

Irish-born priest on mission from Boston was decades-long champion of community solidarityby Tim KirkSpecial to ...

The Vatican says Pope Francis has continued making decisions and is improving, but his two-week hospital stay poses ...

Pope Francis, who is hospitalized in critical condition with double pneumonia, has named a new archbishop for Vancouver. The Vancouver archdiocese says the Pope appointed Archbishop Richard Smith ...

It felt the same for Hatzumi Villanueva of Peru. She was particularly fond of former pope St. John Paul II but said that Francis, as the first Latin American pope, “draws a bit closer.” ...