What direction should the Catholic Church take under the next pope? The late pontiff’s emphasis on social and economic justice, advocacy for migrants and openness to debate on homosexuality and ...

In the wake of Hamas' deadly attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, he exemplified this dedication by making daily phone calls to the Holy Family Church in Gaza - the only Catholic parish in the ...

Christians from Gaza's only Catholic church have paid tribute to Pope Francis, who called them "every day" during the Israel-Hamas war. Speaking outside the Holy Family Church on Easter Monday ...

OUR JOSHUA DAVIS IS IN CLEMMONS AT HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH, WHERE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN GATHERING TO PRAY. AND JOSHUA, THIS NEWS WAS UNEXPECTED FOR PEOPLE THAT YOU SPOKE TO. THAT’S RIGHT.

The Catholic Bishop of London, whose diocese includes Windsor-Essex and Chatham-Kent, says Pope Francis’ popularity helped ...

Pope Francis, a voice for the poor who overcame fierce resistance to reshape the Catholic Church, died of a stroke ... in public at the Vatican during Holy Week, culminating in an Easter Sunday ...

The Archbishop of Southwark, John Wilson, has told BBC London that Catholics ... so the Pope is a father to the Catholic Church worldwide. "So we are a big human family across the world ...

Pope Francis sought to make the church more welcoming ... to recognize one another’s rights and protect vulnerable Catholic minorities. But all of the progress Francis sought to make in his ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, an Argentinian son of Italian immigrants who became Pope Francis, turned out to be a consistently surprising pontiff who forced his Roman Catholic Church to look beyond its ...

Across the wider Middle East, Palestinian, Lebanese and Syrian Christians, both Catholic and Orthodox ... head of the emergency committee at the Holy Family Church in Gaza, told Reuters.