All three men are participants in the synod and will be made cardinals at a consistory on Dec. 8, as announced by Pope ...

So far the role of women in the Church, specifically the call for them to occupy more meaningful positions of leadership and ...

The goal of the second and final meeting of the Synod on Synodality underway at the Vatican is understanding and exercising ...

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Pope Francis meets Jesuits in Belgium, sharing personal stories and insights with leaders from Belgium, Luxembourg, and the ...

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

Asked what a U.S. Catholic given a choice between voting for a person who supports abortion or one who supports closing borders and deporting migrants, Pope Francis said one must choose “the lesser ...

When Pope Francis appoints new Catholic cardinals, as he did on Sunday, the move is often described as the pontiff pushing to ...

ANALYSIS: Here are six angles for understanding who the new cardinals are and why Pope Francis might have picked them.

In his letter to Catholics in the Middle East, the Holy Father expressed his closeness with those “who dwell in the lands of ...

On the anniversary of Oct. 7, the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust, I do not want to talk about peace or ...

On the one-year anniversary of the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, Pope Francis expressed his solidarity with all those ...