Although he was a pontiff well-attuned to the concerns of ordinary Catholics, Pope Francis had a surprising blind spot when it came to the abuse crisis. He ...

Even though cardinals don’t campaign for the job, there are always front-runners going into a conclave to choose the next ...

With millions of followers and a long history that goes back more than 2,000 years, the Church has, over time, created a ...

WASHINGTON — In the final hours of Pope Francis' life, he had what was unknowingly his last meeting with a global leader: U.S ...

The hierarchy of the Catholic Church consists of its bishops, priests, and deacons. In the ecclesiological sense of the term, ...

Hong Kong's outspoken Roman Catholic Cardinal Joseph Zen was allowed to leave the southern Chinese city to attend Pope ...

The Vatican said in a statement later Monday that Francis died of a stroke that put him into a coma and led to irreversible ...

Pope Francis's passing reminds us yet again of the complete absence of women in the upper echelons of the church. This is ...

Oh, how I would like a poor church, and for the poor.” Pope Francis I was half-way through the autobiography of Pope Francis ...

When Pope Francis in 2016 wanted to appoint Paloma Garcia Ovejero, a 42-year-old Spanish woman, as deputy head of the Vatican ...

Pope Francis commissioned an investigation, realized he was wrong, apologized to the victims he discredited, and got the ...