Fiducia Supplicans was published after Argentinian Cardinal Víctor Fernández, the Pope’s ghostwriter, had come to the helm of ...

Pope Francis prays at the beginning of the third day of a conference at the Vatican on dealing with sex abuse by priests, Feb ...

Pope Francis was the first pontiff elected from the Society of Jesus - also known as the Jesuits. Here are some essential facts about the Jesuits.

Pope Francis’s devoted faithful will likely soon be hollering for the late, humble, huddled-masses-loving pontiff to be ...

The father of a great family has died — the Holy Father, we Catholics call him. The family of the world’s Catholics is in ...

Pope Francis's death comes after a series of health struggles. He held his final public appearance on Easter Sunday.

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Just 10 days after Pope Francis was appointed head of the Catholic Church, he received an ominous gift from his predecessor — a large white box.The then-76-year-old Pope Francis flew to the Papal ...

More troubling, for the pope, was the case of the Marko Rupnik, a Jesuit priest accused of abusing multiple women. Francis stood accused of having protected Rupnik for a long time, which further ...

Over the course of his pontificate, Pope Francis held up two recurring images: the good shepherd who looks for the lost sheep ...

Vatican City (AFP) – When Pope Francis took over in 2013, the Catholic Church was embroiled in a global scandal over child sex abuse by priests, and the institution's attempts to cover it up.