An article in Biblical Archaeology Review piqued my reporting curiosity. A Bible professor suggested it was possible that ...

A Personal Portrait of Pope Francis, author Michael W. Higgins looks at the factors that shaped and influenced the Pope’s ...

The death of a pope triggers a centuries-old ritual to elect a new one. It involves sacred oaths, the piercing of ballots ...

Pope Francis didn’t affirm same-sex marriage or lobby for ordaining women as priests. But he gently steered the Catholic ...

Pope Francis’s death on Monday launches the centuries-old Catholic ritual of mourning and selecting a new leader of the ...

About 4 in 10 U.S. adults say they’ve donated to an organization that helps people in the U.S. who need food, shelter or ...

Pope Francis understood the power of a simple touch. Some of the most iconic moments of his papacy were those when he ...

The death of Pope Francis has triggered a period of mourning in the Vatican and signals the start of a millennia-old process of picking a new pontiff.

Distinct to Argentina, and emerging in the 1960s, the theology of the people shared liberation theology’s focus on social ...

Pope Francis preached tolerance for others, sometimes to the point of breaking with church orthodoxy and surprising his own ...

As Jorge Mario Bergoglio prepared to assume the papacy, he chose a new name: Francis. That choice was a tribute to St.

Tens of thousands of people planned to be at the Vatican this week for the canonization of Carlo Acutis, the first millennial ...