Bishop Anthony Ji Weizhong is the second Chinese bishop to be ordained since the Vatican in October renewed its agreement on ...

Pope Francis has taken the remarkable step of dissolving a Peruvian-based Catholic movement, the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae ...

Women religious are meant to be serving the poor, marginalized or vulnerable in society, not be working as servants to ...

"In our time, I have observed with pastoral concern the growing acceptance of IVF as an apparent solution to the heartache of ...

The Vatican’s comprehensive and nuanced approach reflects the region’s complex realities.

Austrian cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, a close friend of late pope Benedict XVI and long considered a papal contender ...

The world’s smallest sovereign state has a population of less than 800 and is surrounded by the city of Rome, but the Vatican ...

Pope Francis is not expected to veto President Donald Trump's choice of a high-profile critic of his papacy as the next U.S.

The presence of the Lord always gives us this grace of not fearing,” the Holy Father said at his Jan. 22 general audience at ...

While many people around the world seek a blessing for their animals around the Oct. 4 feast of St. Francis of Assisi, in ...

Pope Francis warned Wednesday against a “chauvinistic mentality” in the Catholic Church, as he promoted a nun to head the ...