Pope Francis, who turns 88 on Dec. 17, is the second-oldest pope in modern history (after Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903 at ...

Dumbed-down Catholicism was a disaster, pastorally,” Barron, who has a doctorate from the Catholic Institute of Paris, told ...

The creator of that documentary is today’s most effective Catholic evangelist, and the most controversial—the 65-year-old ...

With the opening of the Holy Year 2025, Pope Francis' schedule of liturgies in December and January has expanded.

A record 140 cardinals may attend an eventual conclave in the Sistine Chapel. There would have been 141, but Cardinal Miguel ...

Rome is racing to finish restoration works as huge numbers of religious pilgrims are poised to descend on the Vatican to celebrate the Catholic Church’s 2025 jubilee year. Not everyone is sure the ...

Becoming a cardinal is an insistent call to put Jesus at the center of one's life, to love the poor as he did and to ...

With his 10th consistory to create cardinals, Pope Francis has also established nine new titular churches for the members of the Sacred College of Cardinals.

While he has appointed 78% of electors, factors including limited gatherings and logistical challenges suggest the next ...

Pope Francis offered a heartfelt appeal for death row prisoners in the United States, which significantly comes as Joe Biden, the second Catholic president in the country’s history, nears the end of ...

Pope Francis appealed on Sunday for U.S. authorities to commute the sentences of death row prisoners, in an unusual request ...

Priests attend an outdoor Mass celebrated by Pope Francis during his visit to ... of church history for priests and seminarians at the Catholic Institute of Paris, agreed.