When Christ prayed to His Father in Scripture, He often went out into nature — withdrawing to a deserted place, climbing up a ...

Pope Francis leaves a legacy of advocating for social justice issues. But some Catholic communities wish he had been able to do more.

Pope Francis taught the church that the magisterium finds its clarity not merely in propositions but in acts of mercy.

Pope Francis, who died on Monday at the age of 88, was the first Latin American and Jesuit pontiff. He was also the first to ...

Pope Francis’s tenure was punctuated by repeated clashes with American political leaders and sweeping efforts to install more ...

A Catholic aid organization was ordered Monday to pay $60,000 to a gay former employee after he filed a lawsuit alleging sexual discrimination. The former employee, referred to as "John Doe" in ...

They tried to present that ... it depends on what happens next. I mean, if the next pope is going to carry forward his ...

The Church does not, of course, deny that we are bound to care for those closest to us; Catholic Social Teaching is not opposed ... Vatican Council in 1965. They should “always direct their ...

Ross Douthat: The death of Pope Francis ends, or at least temporarily suspends, a tumultuous period in the life of the world’s largest religious institution. A period where the pope was often pitted ...

Later, when I was commissioned by Catholic Relief Services to illustrate the seven principles of Catholic social teaching for their ... own lives had been changed, they changed my own," writes ...

Despite the outcry of traditionalists who fomented for a smaller but “purer” church, Pope Francis was willing to “ make a ...