VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear ...

Catholics still believe there is one God who exists as three divine persons, that Jesus died and was resurrected, and that ...

Pope Francis has died, the Vatican confirmed to the public on Monday, capping the end of a tenure seen by some as one of the more progressive in the Roman Catholic Church.

Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear weapons, upheld it in ...

Bergoglio chose Francis as his papal name just moments after Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes urged him not to forget the ...

The pope, who pushed for a less opaque Vatican and connected to common and marginalised people’s concerns, dies aged 88.

The king said he was “deeply saddened” to hear of the pope's death, while JD Vance, the pontiff’s final international visitor ...

Over the Chinese New Year holiday, David Fang, a Beijing house church pastor, organized an online book club. For 23 days, the 20 members of the club gathered on a video call where Fang would read one ...

If you create an authoritarian state in the home that raises people to expect and empathize with violence, then what you ...

Some takeaways about the life of Pope Francis, who died Monday: Background Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born Dec. 17, 1936, to ...

A Christian man in the the eastern Pakistani town of Jaranwala has been sentenced to death after being accused of desecrating ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born Dec. 17, 1936, to Italian immigrants in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldest of five children.