Pope Francis has ruffled the feathers of some religious leaders in the United States by saying that all religions provide a ...

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In PNG about 25 percent of its 11 million people live below the poverty line and slightly more than 10 percent have ...

Harkening back to JFK's 1960 run, Catholics are being highlighted as they represent roughly 24% of Pennsylvanians, according ...

Eight hundred years ago, around the feast of the Triumph of the Cross (Sept. 14), Francis of Assisi received the “stigmata,” ...

the guidance instructed bishops not to allow the establishment of new groups that celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass. The apostolic letter received swift backlash and more than 36,000 Catholics have ...

TASITOLU, East Timor (AP) — An estimated 600,000 people — a figure nearing half of East Timor’s population —- packed a seaside park Tuesday for Pope Francis’ final Mass, held on the same ...

Pope Francis praised cultural and religious diversity as “a gift from God” in a video message to an interreligious youth conference on Tuesday. “Contemplate the diversity of your traditions ...

Rome — Pope Francis weighed in Friday on the options for voters in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, indicating to reporters on the papal plane as he returned from a marathon Asia trip that ...

“I am praying for the victims and continue to be close to all of the families of the hostages,” the pope said on Sept. 15 after praying the traditional Marian prayer. The bodies of Goldberg ...

So much so that nearly half the population of East Timor gathered Tuesday in a seaside park for Pope Francis' final Mass in the small Southeast Asian country whose people are deeply Catholic.

(RNS) — The pope is back in Rome after his visits to Asia and Oceania. Here’s what we learned from his historic trip. First, despite rumors to the contrary, Pope Francis is still up to the job.