The Vatican has taken the first main step to implement Pope Francis’ wish that Belgium’s late king be beatified.

Pope Francis has appointed a new bishop to a Texas-based diocese who will replace a theologically conservative critic of the pontiff removed from office last year.

President Joe Biden is expected to announce soon that he will visit the Vatican to meet with Pope Francis next month for what would likely be the final international trip of his presidency

The Vatican has taken the first main step to implement Pope Francis ... is long behind us.” Francis has strongly backed the Catholic Church’s opposition to abortion and long equated it ...

The Vatican has taken the first main step to implement Pope Francis' wish that Belgium's late king be beatified for having abdicated for a day rather than approve legislation to legalize abortion. Des

ROME — The Vatican has taken the first main step to implement Pope Francis’ wish that Belgium ... rather than approve legislation to legalize abortion. The Holy See’s saint-making office ...

Nancy Pelosi criticized Pope Francis for the Vatican’s deal with ... her feuds with Catholic bishops over her adamant support of abortion. Although her bishop, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone ...

such as the constitutionalization of abortion and French-style secularism, to which the Pope prefers a more flexible, "Corsican-style" secularism. Earlier on Sunday, Pope Francis was welcomed by ...

Remembered as a humble leader and a defender of the most vulnerable, especially unborn children, St. John Paul II described the fifth king of Belgium as a “great guardian of the rights of the human conscience.

The leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland has said he is “very disappointed” that “such a momentous decision” on the legalisation of assisted dying was

The move spares the lives of people convicted in killings, including the slayings of police and military officers, people on federal land and those involved in deadly bank robberies or drug deals.