From working as a bouncer at a Buenos Aires nightclub to presiding over the Vatican, the path Pope Francis forged as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church was as unlikely as it was unprecedented.

I knew he was the head of the Catholic Church, a figure of authority whose portrait hung in parish halls and Catholic schools. But he remained an unreachable, almost mythical figure. When Pope ...

The Quiapo Church invited the Catholic faithful to take part in a mass honoring the late Pope Francis this Saturday. In a Super Radyo report on dzBB, Mao dela Cruz said the mass is to commemorate and ...

When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected to lead the Catholic church in 2013, he chose the papal name Francis, after the 13th-century figure St. Francis of Assisi, known as the patron saint of ...

The Roman Catholic Church has consistently condemned abortion — the direct and purposeful taking of the life of the unborn child. In principle, Catholic Christians believe that all life is ...

This church became known as the Coptic church because Copt is the Arabic and Greek word for Egyptian. Before the Moslem invasion in 641 the Copts fell into heresy due to their rejection of the ...

Women deacons could also bolster the church’s presence in schools, hospitals and prisons, along with providing leaders for Catholic communities. Church leaders in the Amazon, where priests are ...

The papacy of Pope Francis ended with the same core doctrine for LGBTQ+ people that he inherited: The Catholic Church still rejected same-sex marriage and condemned any sexual relations between gay or ...

The papacy of Pope Francis ended with the same core doctrine for LGBTQ+ people that he inherited: The Catholic Church still rejected same-sex marriage and condemned any sexual relations between ...

The abuse crisis in the Catholic Church exposed deep cultural and systemic failings. Francis’ renewal efforts, including his convening of worldwide synod assemblies, sought to build more ...