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

As the Church’s liturgical year drew to a close, the Pope reflected on how Christian joy and love persist even amid global ...

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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

is the new world, the eternal world, which God prepares for all by giving his life for our salvation.” On the Feast of Christ the King, Pope Francis celebrated Mass at the Vatican, marking the ...