One of the ten themes that emerged from the Synod last year and entrusted by Pope Francis to a small working group concerns relations between the Eastern Catholic Churches and Latin Churches. A report ...

Pope Francis said he wanted to respond to a "storm of chattering" that had developed around his expansion of synod membership ...

Pope Francis opened the second session of the Synod of Bishops defending his decision to give women and laymen votes at the ...

As a child, Laurence Gien was abused by a priest in South Africa. Decades later, he became the first survivor to recount his ...

Pope Francis penned requests for forgiveness, which were read by the most influential clerics at the Vatican, listing the ...

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Pope Francis on Tuesday led a prayer service asking forgiveness for the failings of the Catholic Church, including treatment ...

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Hardy and Mia Tomlinson have joined Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga in New Line’s The Conjuring: Last Rites. Wilson and Farmiga are reprising their roles as paranormal ...

The Catholic Church has been undergoing a long, slow shift, playing out on the timescale of centuries: a shift to distance ...

twice as many books and articles have appeared on the rosary in the last ten years as there were in the previous twenty. Some form of the rosary has been part of Western Catholicism for almost seven ...

The Pope has told American Catholics to "choose the lesser evil" as he criticised both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Pope Francis launched the surprise intervention in the US election on his ...

Rome — Pope Francis weighed in Friday on the options for voters in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, indicating to reporters on the papal plane as he returned from a marathon Asia trip that ...