Pope Francis, the charismatic and conciliatory Argentinian who moved to liberalize the Roman Catholic Church, dramatically ...

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and lesbian faithful. Some wished he’d gone further.

A longtime Vatican correspondent shares his insights on the legacy of Pope Francis, a populist leader who sought to bring the ...

Though any Catholic man can technically become the next Pope, more than half of the world’s estimated 1.3 billion Catholics ...

Speaking with ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner, Cathy Brenti, executive secretary of the Catholic ... entities in the charismatic renewal, bishops, and parish priests,” she ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Francis leaves behind him a church still divided, but radically transformed. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — ...

Pope France attended San Lorenzo matches as a child with his Italian immigrant father and remained an unabashed fan ...

That was the — one of the beguiling, charming things, charismatic things about him ... even the Diocesan clergy priests and parish priests, could be aloof from their people, could be too ...