Pope Francis is known to believers and to non-believers alike as a man who is willing to speak his mind on issues regarding ...

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

Pope Francis called on the world's Catholic cardinals, many of whom live in Rome and lead Vatican offices, to pursue a "zero ...

So, before memorizing the list of popes (Peter ... of State of the Holy See and future Pope Pius XII, with the important task of transporting the encyclical Non abbiamo bisogno (“We do not ...

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

Pope Francis wrapped up a 12-day tour across the Southeast Asia region on Thursday, marking the longest international trip of ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia Pope Francis and the grand imam of Southeast ... priority for the Argentine Jesuit pope, who has issued encyclicals insisting on the moral case for caring for God’s creation.

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AP) — Pope Francis called Saturday ... nickel and natural gas. Francis, who has written entire encyclicals about the environment, has long insisted that ...

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea — (AP) — Pope Francis called Saturday ... royalties have often led to conflicts. Francis, who has written entire encyclicals about the environment, has long ...