In his newly released memoir, Hope, the story of the world that made Jorge Mario Bergoglio — and, by extension, the world leader we know as Pope Francis — is a story finally told in his own words. But ...

After a coronation ceremony two years ago hailed as an interreligious novelty and progressively open-minded, King Charles III ...

Ordained as a bishop by a traditionalist sect, he was excommunicated then reinstated by the Vatican, but was undone by his ...

Rather than rally a few of his friends for a somber church service, I decided to take my dad’s memory to Rome and do what he ...

Pope Francis has convened a high-level summit to demand that children be protected from war, forced labor, trafficking and exploitation ...

However, a few weeks before his death, the German pope wrote a letter to his biographer ... And what about the outrageous chronicles fed by Pius XII’s physician, Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi, who ...

The Autobiography by Pope Francis (Translated from Italian by Richard Dixon); Jesus Wept: Seven Popes and the Battle for the Soul of the Catholic Church by Philip Shenon ...

According to the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, at age 15 she felt the call to religious life and entered the Institute ...

The Dicastery for the Causes of Saints has promulgated a decree recognizing that five Spanish Franciscans were killed “in ...

Shira Klein, chair of the history department at Chapman University, said there is a popular misconception about Italy’s treatment of the Jews during World War II. That view, which she said is ...

Monsignor Joseph B. Illig was the beloved pastor who spent 36 years shepherding St. Brigid's Catholic Church, from 1922, to his death on Easter Sunday in 1958.

Bishop Anthony Ji Weizhong is the second Chinese bishop to be ordained since the Vatican in October renewed its agreement on ...