VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV decided Thursday to declare St. John Henry Newman a “doctor” of the church, bestowing one of ...

Pope Francis said he believes the church should practice what it preaches. “It hurts me when I see a priest or nun with the latest-model car,” he recently said.

Until his final days, the late Pope Francis had regularly spoken to the priest at Gaza's Catholic church about the situation in the war-ravaged territory.

As the world mourns Pope Francis, here is a look back at significant moments in his papacy that set his time as head of the Catholic Church apart from others. Not only did Francis’ ascension to ...

Father Gabriel Romanelli was very close with the late Pope Francis and the two spoke every night since the beginning of ...

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The Rev. Gabriel Romanelli of the Church of the Holy Family used to speak every night with Pope Francis before the pontiff’s ...

Many people throughout the world mourned the death of Pope Francis and looked expectantly upon the election of a new leader for the Catholic Church. Their gaze was captured by probably the most ...

With all that happened in the Catholic Church last month, we can be forgiven for missing the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si', Pope Francis’ encyclical on global warming. Pope Francis fell ill ...

Pope Leo XIV has decided to declare John Henry Newman a “doctor” of the church, bestowing one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors on the deeply influential 19th Anglican convert who remains a unif ...

Many people throughout the world mourned the death of Pope Francis and looked expectantly upon the election of a new leader for the Catholic Church. Their gaze was captured by probably the most ...