COMMENTARY: The newly retired Church leader’s greatest contribution was his work as the principal drafter/editor of the ...

Francis is also in a unique position, in that he follows two popes who had a more conservative view of what Vatican II represented. In Catholic theological terms, St. Pope John Paul II and Benedict ...

Various videos claim Pope Francis's successor has been appointed, but that's not how a new bishop of Rome is chosen. How does ...

H is Holiness Pope Francis —the 266th bishop of Rome, supreme pontiff of the Universal Church, sovereign of the Vatican City ...

Austrian cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, a close friend of late pope Benedict XVI and long considered a papal contender ...

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, a Dominican theologian who helped write the Catechism of the Catholic Church, led the Vienna ...

Pope Francis opening a Holy Door at Rebibbia Penitentiary on Saint Stephen day in Rome as part of the Catholic Jubilee Year Photograph by VATICAN MEDIA / Catholic Press Photo / MAXPPP Is Pope ...

In their investigation into the Catholic movement Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, Vatican officials uncovered “sadistic” ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday hailed the release of Cuban prisoners as a “gesture of great hope” that he prayed would be ...

Pope Francis accepted the resignation of the eighth Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, Daniel Nicholas DiNardo, on Monday, ...

Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, 75, resigned from the archdiocese after expanding Catholicism throughout southeast Texas.