Travelling 1000 km in a C-130 provided by the Royal Australian Air Force, Francis arrived at a township of 12,000 people with ...

Catholic worshipers who claim to have seen and ... The Vatican released a 17-page report, vetted by Pope Francis, which gave its seal of approval to “devotion and spiritual experience” for ...

Pope Francis has decided the next world Synod of Bishops at the Vatican, which will take place in October 2022, will have the theme: "For a synodal church: Communion, participation and mission." ...

Pope Francis made two comments last week that touched off a tempest in Christendom. First, during an interreligious meeting at Catholic Junior College in Singapore, he said that religions are ...

Pope Francis initiated the synod in 2021 asking all Catholic faithful to weigh in on ... and that there will likely be other changes in the list of participants before the synod starts.

AS a Catholic, I was happy to see Pope Francis resonating so well with various religious groups during his recent 11-day apostolic journey to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore. But ...

Pope Francis on Wednesday said the Catholic Church is “more alive” outside of Europe as he reflected back on his recent apostolic journey to Southeast Asia. “A first reflection that comes ...

The people of Indonesia believe in gotong royong, literally, “joint bearing of burdens,” carrying something together, ...

Pope Francis received a rapturous welcome from the tiny Southeast Asian nation of East Timor, one of the world’s most ...

President Joe Biden, while a staunch supporter of a woman’s right to choose, is a devout Catholic and has met with the current pope twice during his presidency — in October 2021 at the Vatican ...

The name of the bishop of Matagalpa, who was deported to Rome on Jan. 14 by the Daniel Ortega regime, appears on the list of synod participants chosen directly by Pope Francis. Álvarez’s ...