Francis is also in a unique position, in that he follows two popes who had a more conservative view of what Vatican II ...

Pope Francis is taking the highly unusual decision to dissolve an influential Catholic group from Peru which has been plagued ...

In a new book, Pope Francis said he feels “all right” despite his illnesses. “The reality is, quite simply, that I am old,” ...

Francis spent much of the past decade in relatively good health but has dealt with several painful medical conditions over ...

More than 3,000 Italians participated in the survey carried out in January, expressing their opinion on the challenges facing ...

There are several bishops in the U.S. who were appointed by the pope and support his vision, and as more and more bishops ...

Pope Francis falls and hurts his arm, Vatican says, weeks after another fall resulted in a bad bruise on his chin.

The book, which was six years in the making, vividly recreates Francis’ childhood in Buenos Aires but offers few new insights ...

Growing up in a multicultural neighbourhood in the 1940s, the boy who would become Pope witnessed drugs, prostitutes... and ...

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, a Dominican theologian who helped write the Catechism of the Catholic Church, led the Vienna ...