Though any Catholic man can technically become the next Pope, more than half of the world’s estimated 1.3 billion Catholics ...

Good Catholics were supposed to embrace gay people but not their gayness. That’s hardly the arithmetic of equality.

An openly gay Waukesha County priest credits Pope Francis for allowing him to come out after years of hiding. Father Greg ...

The Catholic Church needs to elect a young pope in its next conclave in order to inspire new vocations to the priesthood.

During Francis’ time as pope, he spoke on a wide array of controversial and political issues, including immigration, same-sex ...

The pontiff, who died on Easter Monday at age 88, strived to make the church more inclusive. But critics believed his reforms ...

The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) released its 2025 national survey of seminarians who are scheduled ...

The Rev. Dan Hess, who studied in Rome while Pope Francis began his papacy, described the pope's call to shake things up as ...

Pope Francis, whose time as head of the Catholic Church was noted for an everyman humility and outreach efforts to people of ...