Pope Francis has long advocated for immigrants, refugees, and the vulnerable—but the Church, like other institutions, may ...

Pope Francis has visited Rome’s main prison and kept an Easter season appointment to spend Holy Thursday among the least ...

Using Rembrandt’s painting “Return of the Prodigal Son” as inspiration, the Holy Father said God’s love is like that of a father who goes out in search of his lost children.

Holy Week is an opportune time to reflect upon papal encyclicals that offer profound guidance relevant in these challenging times as the timeless wisdom found in social teachings of the Catholic Churc ...

To all, Francis offers a message of mercy. It is a message that has won him both praise and criticism.

Pope Francis’s encyclical, Laudato Si’, was published almost 10 years ago. This environmental text sought to move the ...

Born in 1991, an Italian boy will be proclaimed the Catholic Church's first saint of the millennial generation on April 27.

Antoni Gaudí, the celebrated Catalan long nicknamed “God’s architect” for designing Barcelona’s Sagrada Família, has been put on the path to sainthood by the Vatican.

Pope Francis advanced the sainthood causes of one woman and five men, including Antoni Gaudí, the Spanish architect who ...

Carlo Acutis, a British-born Italian boy who built websites to spread his faith, will be proclaimed the Catholic Church's ...

Pope Francis on Monday signed a decree that recognized the 20th-century visionary’s “heroic virtues” and put him on the path ...