Three U.S. cardinals who met with Pope Francis aren't saying what was on the agenda. A likely topic, writes NCR's Michael ...

Pope Francis at his general audience on Wednesday called pornography a work of the devil and warned Christians to reject this and other temptations accessed through the internet. “Any cellphone ...

The pope just announced a new consistory that will take place Dec. 8 appointing 21 new cardinals from around the world.

It's not the figurehead you'd expect for the universal basic income movement, which is mostly driven by tech CEOs in Silicon Valley, but it's the one with by far the most followers: Pope Francis.

Pope Francis called on the newly-appointed Cardinals-elect of the Roman Catholic Church to embody humility, prayer and ...

While strongly upholding church teaching forbidding abortion, Francis hasn’t emphasised church doctrine as much as his predecessors. Pope Francis holds a news conference aboard the papal plane ...

Pope Francis on Friday slammed both U.S. presidential candidates for what he called anti-life policies on abortion and ...

Pope Francis has pledged to root out the “scourge” of clerical sexual abuse after Belgium’s prime minster urged him in unusually frank terms to take concrete action. Francis was addressing ...

Pope Francis has said that he thinks same-sex couples should be allowed to have "civil unions". He made the comments, which observers say are his clearest remarks yet on gay relationships ...

Pope Francis has changed the teachings of the Catholic faith to officially oppose the death penalty in all circumstances, the Vatican has said. The Catechism of the Church, a codified doctrine ...

Pope Francis received a rapturous welcome from the tiny Southeast Asian nation of East Timor, one of the world’s most ...