The shift, molded by plummeting church attendance, increasingly traditional priests and growing numbers of young Catholics ...

Pope Francis will visit Indonesia, East Timor, Papua New Guinea and Singapore in September, the Vatican announced Friday, ...

Pope Francis attended the Venice Biennale of Arts and visited the Vatican's exhibit, which was inside of a women's prison and ...

The full version of the pope’s interview is set for a “60 Minutes” episode on May 19 and then an hour-long prime time ...

Regardless of what one thinks of the advisability of a pope known for his off-the-cuff remarks partaking in long interviews, ...

COMMENTARY: The upsurge in canonizations in recent decades is a reflection of the reality that another age of persecution is ...

Pope Francis has now established 10 working groups to study some of the most controversial issues that have emerged in the ...

The pope has "been able to zero in on this fundamental gospel issue of our time," according to El Paso-based Bishop Mark ...

Visitors can reach out and touch the marble tomb as they pray on kneelers behind the altar and many leave small pieces of ...

U.S. Catholics are starting to see the type of climate action for which the pope has called, and the type of leadership ...

Pope Francis on Sunday visited a prison for women in Venice ahead of a mass in the watery city representing the 87-year-old ...

Pope Francis offered encouragement to prisoners, artists and young people in Venice on Sunday, with his first trip of the ...