When Jorge Mario Bergoglio became pope in 2013, he chose a name no pontiff had ever taken: Francis. It was inspired by St ...

Just a few years after the Visita Iglesia practice was established, some of the churches in Albay had already been built, ...

On March 13, 2013, Francis succeeded Pope Benedict XVI, who was the first pope to retire in six centuries. Francis became the ...

Honoring the legacies of its patron saint and its founder in serving the poor and addressing the root causes of poverty, the ...

The subject of numerous controversies, she is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more imaginative approaches to faith.

The church officially recognizes St. Peter, the first pope, as the longest-serving, with at least 34 years. However, many ...

Pope Francis, formerly Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, was the first Latin-American pontiff in the history of the ...

He was unafraid to wade into politics, publicly feuding with U.S. President Donald Trump over immigration and rebuking U.S.

Saint Jerome, one of the four great Latin Doctors of the Church (the other three being St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, and St. Gregory the Great ... He is the patron of Bible scholars.

Pope Francis bucked that tradition when he was elected, instead choosing his name to honor St. Francis of Assisi, the 13th century cleric now celebrated in the church as the patron saint of ...