Our first Jesuit pope, Francis, resumed the reforms of the Second Vatican Council by challenging the church to go outside our ...

Border czar Tom Homan voiced his disagreement with Pope Francis over border policy after the pontiff claimed that the Trump ...

“The choice reflects Francis’ avowed aim to give women greater leadership roles in the Roman Catholic Church,” the New York Times reports. But if the pope truly aspires to make good on that ...

McElroy, bishop of San Diego, to be the next Roman Catholic archbishop of ... of women and L.G.B.T.Q. people in church life and leadership. In 2022, Pope Francis made him a cardinal, and therefore ...

Church leaders from Norfolk ... They worshipped together and visited two Roman Catholic dicasteries, one promoting Christian unity and another set up by the pope to work for justice, peace ...

The church in a certain territory is known as a particular church. The Catholic ... of the Pope through the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, one of the offices of the Roman Curia.

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Pope Francis, 88, sustained a bruise to his right forearm after fall at his Vatican residence but continued with his daily ...

"They are the strawberries on the cake, but there is need for more," Pope Francis said on the subject of women in the Catholic ... in the Roman Curia – the administrative body of the Church ...

"This is exactly what the Pope does not do." Francis, leader of the 1.4-billion-member Roman Catholic Church, has recently been more outspoken about Israel's military campaign against Palestinian ...

Pope Francis is the 266th Roman Pontiff of the Catholic Church. Formerly Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina, he was elected by the conclave of cardinals on March 13 ...

So rare are councils—there have been only 20 in the nearly 2,000 years of Christian history—that merely by summoning Vatican II to “renew” the Roman Catholic Church Pope John ...