Catholic doctrine on gay and transgender people won’t change anytime soon, Pope Leo XIV reportedly told a biographer in his ...

Pope Leo XIV may be less inclined to stick his thumb in the eye of the conservative resistance, but he's no less committed to Pope Francis' agenda.

In a wide-ranging interview with an Italian paper, Card. Camillo Ruini offered a forthright assessment of the Francis pontificate and flatly called Benedict XVI’s decision to resign “a mistake.” ...

The bones of St. Francis of Assisi, the medieval friar who inspired Pope Francis and generations of Christians before him, ...

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

Francis angered conservatives in the Catholic Church with his stances on gay people, divorce and immigration.

ASSISI, Italy — The bones of St. Francis of Assisi went on public display for the first time Sunday, capping an 800-year saga ...

The remains of St Francis of Assisi, one of the Catholic Church's best-known saints, went on public display on Sunday for the ...

Javier Cercas’ European Book Prize-winning work turns a Vatican trip into a searching conversation about faith, death, and what Europe still expects from religion. When Spanish novelist Javier Cercas ...