Has the Catholic Church become too Pope-centric? Or too Pope-dependent, to put it another way. It wasn’t always so. These ...

Green nuns. Green sisters. Even "eco-nuns." Throughout America -- and indeed, the world -- thousands of religious sisters are ...

In addition to Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and Singapore, Francis also travelled to East Timor, and returned to Rome from ...

The focal point remains the 2018 joint accord on the appointment of bishops, which is up for renewal in October 2024.

(RNS) — The pope is back in Rome after his visits to Asia and Oceania. Here’s what we learned from his historic trip.

At the 68th IAEA General Conference, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Vatican foreign minister, reiterated the Holy See's strong ...

RNS Vatican reporter Claire ... have been inspired by his 2015 encyclical, “Laudato Si’.” According Isaura Baptista Barros, writing at NCRonline, the pope “emphasized that true freedom ...

Only from a genuine conversion on all levels – personal, local and international – will true peace be able to flourish,” says ...

During Pope Francis' four-country visit to Asia and Oceania, world leaders were eager to echo the pontiff's focus on ...

wrote an impassioned letter to Pope Paul VI. In it he asked that the Family Rosary be declared a liturgical prayer. "My heart cries out for a papal document which could take the form of an encyclical, ...

Ecclesia de Eucharistia Encyclical Letter by Pope John Paul on the "Eucharist in its relationship to the church." April 17, 2003 (Holy Thursday) Mary is treated in Paragraphs 4, 6, 7, 19, 53-58; in ...