Pope Francis has canonized 14 new saints, including a group of martyrs from Syria, in a move that could symbolize a call for ...

Advocates for a greater role for women in the Catholic Church say Pope Francis is failing their cause at a global meeting of ...

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In a Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 20, the pope declared three nineteenth-century founders of religious orders and the ...

The encyclical is being published amid the celebrations of the 350th anniversary of the apparitions of the Sacred Heart of ...

We know that the Holy Father has expressed that at this time the issue of the female diaconate is not mature and has asked ...

On October 20, the Catholic Church welcomed 14 new saints. Pope Francis presided over the canonization Mass for 11 Christians ...

For the Pope, "at this moment the question of the female diaconate is not mature, and he has asked that we do not dwell on ...

When Nihon Hidankyo’s award was announced on Oct. 11, I recalled the visit of Pope Francis to Japan five years ago in November 2019.

Argentine Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez said that a commission on women deacons created by Pope Francis in 2020 and led by ...

Cardinal Víctor Fernández at a speech at the general congregation on Oct. 21 recalled that for the Holy Father the question ...

"Dilexit nos" (He has loved us) is the title of the fourth encyclical by Pope Francis: it will be made public next Thursday.