Eastern and Western churches will celebrate Easter on the same day this year, while marking 1,700 years since the Council of ...

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

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 Holy See, which has a tradition of diplomatic neutrality, has expressed alarm over the Trump's administration's crackdown ...

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 ...

U.S. Vice President JD Vance has met with the Vatican’s No. 2 official after a remarkable papal rebuke of the Trump ...

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.

Francis and Mr Vance have tangled over migration and the Trump administration’s plans to deport migrants en masse. Francis has made caring for migrants a hallmark of his papacy and his progressive ...

Pope Pius XII was a diplomat and not a radical ... As an example, the Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht in July 1942 protested in a pastoral letter against the Jewish persecutions in Holland.

Antoni Gaudi was a devout Catholic and believed the construction of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia basilica was his way to make ...

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