After penning a letter to the world’s cardinals asking them to focus on financial reform, urging spending cuts and ...

Pope Francis has strongly criticized both U.S. presidential candidates over what he calls anti-life policies on abortion and ...

He was a Vatican spokesman during the 2013 Papal Conclave that elected Pope Francis and was a Vatican media advisor for the 2008 and 2018 Synods of Bishops. The news website The Pillar reported a ...

from 12% in 2013 to 10% as of last September’s conclave. But if Pope Francis does add another American, a small batch of U.S. prelates exhibit some of the qualities he typically looks for when ...

Francis has not been home since before the 2013 conclave that elected him pope. — declared that China was “a promise and a hope” for the Catholic Church and hoped to one day visit.