As the Church marks ten years since the publication of Pope Francis’ Encyclical Letter on care for our common home, Laudato ...

In our own day, the church offers everyone the treasury of its social teaching in response to another industrial revolution ...

Chow's call came after the 69-year-old Augustinian priest, whose name is Robert Francis Prevost, became the first of 267 popes in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church to be elected from ...

making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global turmoil and conflict.Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious ...

You’ll have to ask the Department of Homeland Security.” The idea that immigrants ... have to hand to the assembled leaders of the Catholic Church, it’s this: They do know how to surprise ...

The new pope has served in a variety of leadership roles throughout the Catholic Church in addition to his pastoral ministry, including as a seminary teacher and administrator. He was made a ...

None of us knows what will happen as the conclave convenes. I have some favorites, because I would love to see the church return to its more traditional, less “touchy-feely” roots. I know that ...

These traits would become key themes of the 12-year papacy of Pope Francis. As 133 Catholic cardinals started their conclave on Wednesday to elect Francis’ successor, the world awaits the moment when ...

The Catholic Church announced that priests will be excommunicated if they follow a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report confessions about child abuse to law enforcement.

As the Vatican prepared for the conclave, its child protection advisory commission on Monday urged cardinals to prioritize the clergy sexual abuse issue, saying the Catholic Church's very ...

Ashley McGuire of the Catholic ... over ‘credible threats’ 13 Things That Totally Annoy TSA Agents—and What to Do Instead 19 Billion Passwords Leaked Amid Phone Security Warning Berlin ...