By Steve Scherer VATICAN CITY, June 15 (Reuters) - Pope Francis urged a delegation of French lawmakers on Saturday to avoid following ...

The White House announced Friday that President Barack Obama will nominate Ken Hackett, the former president of Catholic Relief Services to be the Uni...

Pope Francis allegedly said that the Vatican is filled with gays, with queer networks and with a culture of granting professional favors to each other. Yet the pope has decided to clean up his shop. He is quoted as saying, "the carnival is over."

VATICAN CITY, June 14 (Reuters) - Pope Francis and the new head of the world's Anglicans acknowledged deep differences over issues ranging from gay ...

UPDATE: According the website Acipresa, CLAR has retracted their record of Pope Francis addressing the 'Gay Lobby': The Latin American and Caribbea...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis revealed Friday that he never wanted to be pope and that he's living in the Vatican hotel for his "psychiatric" heal...

VATICAN CITY, June 6 (Reuters) - Pope Francis broke with another papal tradition on Thursday and revealed he will not spend his summer in the lavish...

Pope Francis took the occasion of World Environment Day to slam the influence of money and profit in the "human ecology" making the connection between...

VATICAN CITY — The new head of the Vatican bank says his top priority is to clean up the bank's reputation, saying the institution hasn't served...

ROME -- An Italian priest who stirred consciences with his anti-Mafia preaching and was gunned down by mobsters has been honored by the Vatican as a m...

As shocking as it may be to some observers and Catholics in the Global North, Pope Francis' informal exorcism neatly captures the rise of the Global South, where prayers for deliverance from evil are common Catholic currency.

Wouldn't you assume that the newly established Church would want its devotees to immerse themselves in the sanctioned New Testament, especially since the Church went to great lengths to eliminate competing Gospels?

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY, May 18 (Reuters) - Pope Francis shared personal moments with 200,000 people on Saturday, ...

Having closely monitored the development of Saint Death's burgeoning cult on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, I had expected a condemnation by the Vatican, although I am somewhat surprised that it came before any such statement made by U.S. bishops.

VATICAN CITY -- If Pope Francis is feeling a bit homesick these days, he need only go downstairs to St. Peter's Square. The Vatican on Friday opened ...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has denounced the global financial system, blasting the "cult of money" that he says is tyrannizing the poor and turning ...

MEXICO CITY — The Vatican's culture minister says Mexico's folk Death Saint is a blasphemous symbol that shouldn't be part of any religion. Car...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Roman Catholics in Puerto Rico rallied Wednesday around an archbishop who is apparently under pressure from the Vatican ...

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican on Tuesday denied there were any internal divisions over its crackdown on the largest umbrella group of U.S. nuns aft...

The choice before our bishops now is whether to continue a divisive battle that will only diminish their own authority, or to follow where the laity has led.