Fresh off her trip to the Vatican, Sister Norma Pimentel says she is heartened by a recent letter from Pope Francis ...

Pope Francis’s letter poses an implicit question to the whole church in the United States: Will we subject our political debates on immigration to the scrutiny of the Gospel or not?

Archbishop Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, thanked Pope Francis and said the bishops join the ...

The Vatican expects more than 10,000 people from across the wider art and cultural environments — hailing from over 100 countries and five continents — to participate in events over the four days.

The fallout highlights a potential growing ideological divide between conservative Catholicism and Trump's MAGA base. Pope Francis has frequently shown support for immigrants and refugees, while the ...

The item was selected by the bishop as a gift to take on a recent visit to Rome ... the centuries, from pictures and plants to a live elephant called Hanno given to Pope Leo X by the King of ...

John Paul II's visit was followed by both of his immediate successors. Pope Benedict came in 2006, whilst Pope Francis made the ... Polish resistance movement. Inmates were also flogged in front ...

During his visit to Chile, the pope approached the reality of female prisons, where many of the inmates live with their children. Surrounded by some 1,200 inmates, Francis said that “a human sentence ...

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On Dec. 26, as part of the Jubilee Year, Pope Francis opened a new Holy Door in ... Notably, he often chooses to wash the feet of prison inmates during Holy Thursday liturgies.

Pope Francis has thanked all mediators involved ... And let us pray for this: for dialogue, reconciliation, and peace,” he said. Francis also hailed Cuba’s decision to free 553 inmates from its jails ...

In an important move for the Catholic Church in Texas on Monday, Pope Francis named Austin Bishop Joe Vásquez to replace 75-year-old Cardinal Daniel DiNardo as head of the Archdiocese of ...