To all, Francis offers a message of mercy. It is a message that has won him both praise and criticism.

Pope Francis’s encyclical, Laudato Si’, was published almost 10 years ago. This environmental text sought to move the ...

Pope Francis’s encyclical, Laudato Si’, was published almost 10 years ago. This environmental text sought to move the ...

Two art restorers were putting the final touches on a months-long restoration of the tomb of Pope Urban VIII, who in 1626 ...

Pope Francis is the 266th Roman Pontiff of the Catholic Church. Formerly Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina, he was elected by the conclave of cardinals on March 13, 2013.

This cemetery is named for Saint Callistus, a slave who eventually became the 16th pope (217-222). The inscription found at Saint Callistus comes from the first letter St. Paul wrote to the church ...

This Via Crucis was celebrated by Pope John Paul II on Good Friday in 1991. These stations reflect deeply on the Scriptural accounts of Christ's passion. Then Jesus came with them to a place ...

Pope John Paul II visited Australia in 1986, who becomes only the second Pope to visit Australia after Pope Paul VI's 1970 tour. On that time he was 66 years old, and had visited every state and ...

Although she was burned at the stake for supposedly being a heretic, on May 23, 1430, an inquisitorial court authorized by Pope Callixtus III re-examined the trial and disproved the charges against ...

In the Middle Ages, the Roman Church replaced this idea of debt cancellation with the concept of plenary indulgence—an ...