For years before becoming Pope Leo XIV — as a parish priest and then bishop in Peru — Robert Prevost built ties with ...

Many Indigenous Catholics saw an ally in Pope Francis who championed their causes, asked forgiveness for the church’s ...

In his final Easter message, Pope Francis expressed pain over the violence and division throughout our world and urged us to ...

The death of Pope Francis has ignited widespread online curiosity about the process of electing the next leader of the ...

Every pope brings a distinct vision and agenda for leading the church. Making change is difficult in the Catholic Church, but ...

a part of the Amazon rain forest. It was 2016, a year after Laudato Si, Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment. When he was up to speak, the bishop didn’t preach though he was in his city ...

Where do you see the influence of Pope Francis’ Latin American background?

Most stories about Pope Francis mention that he made history as ... lives of Native peoples from across the nine countries of the Amazon. During the papal Mass Francis celebrated in Chiapas ...

Pope Leo XIV could bring big change to the Catholic Church – here’s how Francis set the stage - Francis had begun making ...

Ezenwa Ike, Taylor Quach, and Citlaly Landon-Bermudez are all youth leaders at St. Mary's Catholic Church. The group tells me it was refreshing to be around like-minded young people.

On Saturday, April 26, 250,000 mourners congregated in St. Peter's Square to bid farewell to Pope Francis. His modest, unadorned wooden coffin was taken to the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore for ...

(L’Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP File) Pope Francis leaves after celebrating an opening Mass for the Amazon synod, in St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, Oct. 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew ...