Holy Week is a time when the pope would be expected to be front and center of events. But as Francis continues to recover ...

Pope Francis has long advocated for immigrants, refugees, and the vulnerable—but the Church, like other institutions, may ...

While he did not celebrate Mass or wash the feet of inmates, Pope Francis made his customary Holy Thursday visit to a ...

Pope Francis elevated the Diocese of Calicut to the status of Metropolitan Archdiocese on Saturday. The announcement was made at 3.30 p.m. (noon in Rome) by Mar Joseph Pamplany, the Archbishop of ...

The Most Rev. W. Shawn McKnight recalls the exact moment, down to the minute, that he learned the pope would soon name him archbishop of Kansas City in Kansas. It was just before he planned to ...

68-year-old painter Heriberto Ayala still remembers how Pope Francis, then Jorge Mario Bergoglio, an archbishop, came to visit regularly on the number 70 bus and break bread with locals.

The Catholic Church has put Antoni Gaudi, the designer of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia basilica nicknamed "God's architect", ...

The Vatican has placed Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí, dubbed "God's architect" for his work on Barcelona's Sagrada Família, ...

The Vatican has put Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí on the path to sainthood in recognition of his "heroic virtues". Gaudí - who has been dubbed by some as "God's architect" - is the designer of one of ...

Pope Francis has ordered the suppression of the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, a Peru-based lay movement active across Latin America and the United States, and three related lay m ...

Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski celebrated Sunday ... which signify Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem. In Vatican City, Pope Francis attended service at St. Peter’s Square.