In “a note of accompaniment” to the final document, the pope made clear that Catholic bishops throughout the world are to ...

Pope Francis will canonize Blesseds Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati next year and that the Vatican will host a world ...

At the Vatican, Pope Francis celebrates Christ the King Sunday, urging young Catholics to embrace authentic faith and lasting Christian love.

Pope Francis has asked the Vatican to study whether the Catholic Church should classify "spiritual abuse" as a new crime in ...

Pope Francis announced this week that he intends on having a much more simple funeral than those of his predecessors at the ...

The Council of Nicaea took place in the ancient city of Nicaea in 325 A.D. in the former Roman Empire, which is now the ...

Pope Francis has opted to be buried in a wooden ... The 87-year-old pontiff – who turns 88 next month – enacted a new set of liturgical rites aimed at modernizing the Catholic Church that ...

Carlo Acutis, born to Italian parents in London, was a talented web designer who died from leukemia in Italy at just 15 years ...

Pope Francis also established a new papal committee for World Children’s Day and named Father Fortunato ... become more “like ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has revised the funeral rites that ... Ravelli told L’Osservatore Romano that the new reform simplifies the funeral rites, including eliminating the requirement ...

Marking the Solemnity of Christ the King and the close of the liturgical year, Pope ... world is “one where the strong triumph over the weak,” Francis explained, “Jesus’ world, indeed, is ...