Eleventh: tax multi-billionaires. The first to agree with that vast international movement that fights to raise awareness ...

COMMENTARY: The Holy Father’s recent nod to the late Jesuit Father Pedro Arrupe, the controversial Father General of his ...

The day of Pope Francis’ life-changing experience also happened to be the day the Church celebrates the feast of St. Matthew, ...

The Vatican is struggling financially, having been facing a critical situation for some time that has led to cost containment ...

New appeal at Angelus recalling Ukraine, Palestine, Israel and Myanmar and other countries at war. In the commentary on the ...

Michael W. Higgins is the Basilian Distinguished Fellow of Contemporary Catholic Thought at the University of Toronto’s St.

The former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was elected pope on March 13, 2013. He is the 266th pontiff and the first from Latin America, as well as the first to take the name Francis.

Here are some statistics about Pope Francis, 87, who is in the midst of a 33,000-km (20,500-mile) tour of four Southeast ...

Pope Francis has a packed schedule while he is in Singapore. He arrived in Singapore from Dili, Timor-Leste at about 2.50pm ...

(CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Pope Francis, the current pope and first non-European pontiff of the modern era. The first Jesuit pope. The first Latin American pope and the first from the ...