VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear ...

Rather than singling out abortion as an isolated policy topic — something to be settled with an election or a legal ruling — ...

Pope Francis’ transformative vision for the American church made it more open, but also energized conservative resistance ...

The late Pope Francis, who passed away Monday morning, didn’t apologize for defending the long-held social positions of the ...

His messages on abortion and LGBTQ+ rights made him beloved early on in heavily-Catholic New Orleans. But he had more ...

He will go down in history as the 'pope for the marginalized,' a Catholic leader in Naples, said of Pope Francis ...