Pope Leo XIV is signalling his commitment to continuing the fight against clergy sexual abuse. He has appointed a French ...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed the French archbishop of Chambéry, Thibault Verny, as the new president of the Pontifical ...

Let's remember what July 4 is about: independence from people who governed without listening, taxed without accountability, ...

FILE - Pope Francis attends a prayer on the occasion of the World Day of the Creation's care in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015. Riccardo De Luca / AP ...

Eighty-nine. That's the magic number. It will take at least 89 cardinals to elect Pope Francis' successor. That's the two-thirds supermajority of the 133 men who will enter the Sistine Chapel on May 7 ...

When Kamala Harris entered the presidential race, he advised Catholic voters to choose “the lesser of two evils” without specifying which that might be; “both are against life”, he said ...

Amid the alarming rise in Zika virus through Central and South America in 2016, Francis declared that contraception may be the “lesser of two evils,” per ABC News.

Pope Francis reportedly criticised Donald Trump’s mass deportations days before his death. The Trump critic, who died at 88, urged Catholics to reject anti-immigrant narratives.

He first said: " Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. We are talking in terms of the conflict between the fifth and sixth commandments (do not kill and do not commit impure acts)".

Pope Francis faced one of the biggest challenges of his papacy in 2021 when an independent French commission into church sex abuse released its findings after a more than two-year-long investigation.

By contrast, when Mr. Biden decided to not seek re-election in 2024 and Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic nominee, the pope advised Catholic voters to choose the “lesser of two ...

Francis became the 266th occupant of the papacy, which dates back to St. Peter, the disciple of Jesus Christ, who is considered the first pope. The Vatican's biography of Francis names him “the ...