The illness marks one of the gravest health challenges of the pope's 12-year papacy.

Among all the news articles I have read in the past couple of years, I am not ungrateful that one poignant, below-the-fold story has remained with me, a ...

Pope Francis, Latin America’s first pontiff, died at age 88 after a cerebral stroke. Francis stressed humility over hubris for a Catholic Church beset with scandal.

Extracts from CNN Vatican correspondent Christopher Lamb’s new book, “American Hope: What Pope Leo XIV Means for the Church ...

Senior Vatican officials have spoken out sharply against the war in the Middle East, but Pope Leo XIV made a tempered call ...

Pope Leo XIV has opened the church’s penitential Lenten season by presiding over Ash Wednesday. He is lamenting the “ashes of ...

Catholic women leaders from journalism, religious life, parish ministry and grassroots organizing discussed the expanding – but still evolving – role of women in the Catholic Church during a Mar. 9, ...

A quiet cold war is happening across America — one that many Americans might not be aware of if they’re not tuned into the changes underway in America’s Christian communities. On one side is the ...

In Christina Rivera's new collection, we wander through waves of connections, an ebb and flow carrying us between climate ...