Pope Francis

Pope Francis has raised 13 new cardinals to the highest rank in the Catholic hierarchy during a formal ceremony marked from beginning to end by the coronavirus pandemic

Five NBA players have met with Pope Francis at the Vatican to discuss social justice

Joe Biden will become the second Catholic U.S. president, 60 years after Democrat John F. Kennedy became the first member of the faith to hold the office.

The Vatican’s report into ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has raised uncomfortable issues the Holy See will have to confront going forward, chief among them what it will do about current and future clergy who use their power to sexually abuse adults

Pope Francis is vowing to rid the Catholic Church of sexual abuse and offering prayers to victims of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick

Pope Francis is halting his public general audiences and will limit participation at Christmas and other upcoming Masses amid a surge of coronavirus cases in Italy and the Vatican

Pope Francis has named 13 new cardinals, including Washington, D.C., Archbishop Wilton Gregory, who would become the first Black U.S. prelate to earn the coveted red cap.

Questions swirled Thursday about the origins of Pope Francis’ bombshell comments endorsing same-sex civil unions, with all evidence suggesting he made them in a 2019 interview that was never broadcast in its entirety.

Catholics around the world and in Connecticut learned Pope Francis endorsed same-sex civil unions for the first time as pontiff as part of a documentary. “He has this way of introducing the conversation but not through formal channels,” said Reverend Jordan Lenaghan, executive director of Quinnipiac University Religious Life. Francis has previously endorsed civil unions for gay couples while archbishop…

In a new documentary, Pope Francis says gay people are children of God, who should not be kicked out a family and whose life should not be made miserable.

Pope Francis endorsed same-sex civil unions for the first time as pontiff while being interviewed for the feature-length documentary “Francesco,” which premiered Wednesday at the Rome Film Festival.

In new documentary “Francesco,” Pope Francis endorsed permitting civil unions for same-sex couples, the first time he has publicly addressed the issue since becoming pope in 2013.

Pope Francis has met with Cardinal George Pell, warmly welcoming him for a private audience in the Apostolic Palace after the cardinal’s sex abuse conviction and acquittal in Australia

Pope Francis has given his blessing to a new Vatican think tank that is seeking to prevent the Mafia and organized crime groups from exploiting the image of the Virgin Mary for their own illicit ends

During the coronavirus pandemic, Pope Francis has been deprived of the crowds, foreign travel and visits to poor neighborhoods that have so defined his papacy

The confirmed global death toll from the COVID-19 virus has surpassed at least 400,000 fatalities

The founder of the Knights of Columbus, the influential U.S.-based lay Catholic organization, is moving a step closer to possible sainthood. Pope Francis has approved a miracle attributed to the intercession of the Rev. Michael McGivney, a Connecticut priest who died at age 38 of pneumonia in 1890 during a pandemic similar to the current coronavirus outbreak. He would be…

Pope Francis prayed for teachers and students across the world on Wednesday during a Mass in the Vatican.

The Pope offered up a service for people who have died from the coronavirus during Tuesday’s mass.

Pope Francis is calling for solidarity the world over to confront the “epochal challenge” posed by the coronavirus pandemic