Pope Francis’ coffin was closed and sealed in a private ceremony on Friday evening after more than 250,000 people paid their ...

The Vatican ruled that a Catholic cannot be “debaptised”, refuting a small movement of people who want their names removed ...

The superior general of the Society of Jesus, said Pope Francis “did not seek to please everyone” or to measure himself by a ...

He couldn’t, or maybe wouldn’t, change it as far as we wanted but he signalled that he understood the tensions of living our ...

A Nigerian bishop pleaded with the government to end militia attacks that continue to claim the lives of unarmed civilians, ...

The Haitian state is “gradually collapsing”, Church leaders warned, “leaving the door open to the gangs that are extending ...

Religious and political leaders around the world must “speak with one voice” to end Russia’s “barbaric aggression”, the head ...

Caritas Africa, the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa and Caritas Internationalis were among the ...

The death of Pope Francis on Monday marked the passing of one of the most consequential religious leaders of our time. His papacy didn’t merely challenge ...

Orthodox leaders offered their condolences following the death of Pope Francis, remembering his sustained commitment to ...

It was in July 2013 in Rio de Janeiro – on Francis’s first papal pilgrimage beyond Europe, to Brazil for World Youth Day – ...

When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires stood on the balcony of St Peter’s in Rome after being elected pope on 13 ...