Astronauts from the International Space Station gave Pope Francis his own blue jump suit on Friday but to distinguish him from ordinary planetary pilgrims...
The Vatican is denying it is protecting the founder of a Peru-based conservative Catholic community who is accused of sexual and psychological abuse against...
Pope Francis on Sunday called for dialogue in Nicaragua, where weeks of deadly anti-government demonstrations have left more than 100 people dead.
Pope Francis nominated on Sunday a special administrator to the Australian archdiocese of Adelaide after its head was found guilty last month of concealing...
Pope Francis will meet with some of the world's oil executives next week, likely to give them another moral nudge to clean up their act on global warming.
Pope Francis will on Saturday meet five Chilean priests who were sexually abused by another priest, Fernando Karadima, in an effort to heal their wounds and...
Saudi Arabia announced another cabinet reshuffle Saturday with a heavy focus on culture and religion, as the kingdom undergoes a major image overhaul.
* Pope wrote encyclical on protecting environment * Catholic leader sought end to "throwaway" culture * Oil industry under pressure to help cut...
There was no escaping it.
“Mediterranean Encounters,” an exhibition of photos by Francesco Ferla, aims to promote cultural dialogue today by looking at the harmonious Arab-Norman past...
Pope Francis warned Italian bishops this week to vet carefully applicants to the priesthood and reject anyone they suspected might be homosexual, local media...
In the biggest shake-up yet in the Catholic Church’s long-running sex abuse scandal, every active Chilean bishop offered to resign Friday over what Pope...
Pope Francis has accused Chile's bishops of destroying evidence of sex crimes, pressuring church lawyers to minimize accusations and of "grave negligence" in...
There is a moment in the film “Pope Francis – A Man of His Word” when you realize what he is up against.
The Vatican made it clear Saturday that Pope Francis had summoned Chile's bishops to Rome for a papal dressing-down because of their role in covering up...
The trial of a former head of the Vatican bank and an Italian lawyer on charges of money laundering and embezzlement began Wednesday with the court hearing of...
Pope Francis Saturday urged one of the Catholic Church's biggest but most contentious missionary movements to respect different cultures and not try to...
The Knights of Malta, the ancient Roman Catholic aristocratic lay order that weathered a governance scandal last year, has elected an Italian nobleman as its...
Chilean victims of clerical sexual abuse said Wednesday that they had complained to Pope Francis about a "pathological and unlimited exercise of power" within...
Australian Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Vatican official to be charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis, must stand trial on charges alleging...