The Vatican has not announced Pope Francis is resigning, contrary to online claims. Further, his successor would be elected ...

Germany’s Catholic Church has sharply criticized a carnival float made for a big street parade in the western city of Cologne ...

For approximately 1.4 billion Catholics worldwide, Rome is the axis around which the entire cosmos turns. It is often said ...

Pope Francis continued his slow recovery from double pneumonia on Thursday, beating back speculation of an imminent death, ...

The Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, but not when he is ...

The changes Francis brought to the papacy were more than skin deep. He opened the church to the outside world in ways none of ...

Bishop Ronald Hicks wrote St. Mary in Park Forest and St. Boniface in Monee will merge into St. Liborius Catholic Church in ...

If you ever hear me pontificating about the Catholic faith, please recognize it comes from a place of deep belief, but it ...

A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...

As Pope Francis remains in critical condition fighting a complex respiratory infection and double pneumonia, world and ...

COMMENTARY: However, vigils for popes, like the current one for Pope Francis, have been the exception, not the rule.

An Escambia County man is in jail after allegedly pushing over a concrete statue of Jesus at a Pensacola Catholic church, ...