Vatican insiders and interlocutors said the pontiff wanted to avoid getting swept up in the polarizing politics that ...

In word, gesture and deed, Pope Francis consistently reached out to those on the edges – the poor, the disenfranchised, ...

Pope Francis lit a fire in the world's conscience. Our task is to keep it burning but through the quiet, steady work of ...

An online advertising “watchdog” that targeted conservative media outlets before President Donald Trump’s reelection is now ...

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Pope Francis didn’t affirm same-sex marriage or lobby for ordaining women as priests. But he gently steered the Catholic ...

The spirit of her oldest child periodically arrives with a postage stamp. Marcia Welch hasn’t personally met any of the ...

A collection of Zimbabwean stone sculptures will be the centerpiece of an exhibition at Oxford University meant to ...

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Father Brian Lehane, a theology teacher at St. John's Jesuit High School, said Pope Francis leaves behind a legacy that is ...

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Sacramento Bishop Jaime Soto said that, like other Catholics around the world, he’ll be praying as cardinals from around the ...