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Pope Francis was the first pontiff elected from the Society of Jesus — also known as the Jesuits. It's one of the most prominent religious orders in the Catholic Church, with approximately 15,000 ...

Pope Francis changed the face of the modern papacy more than any predecessor by shunning much of its pomp and privilege, but ...

Throughout his pontificate, Francis spoke out for the rights of refugees and criticised countries that shunned migrants. He visited the Greek island of Lesbos and brought a dozen refugees to Italy on ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church ... to allow some married men to be ordained in remote areas of the Amazon. March 7: The pope cancels ...

A federal judge who blocked Donald Trump's administration from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has ruled ...

Farm kids in the Arsi area of Ethiopia. With a population of ... But the famine had felt remote even to him. The victims were hundreds of miles to the north, and there was little talk of it ...

Under his watch, an overhauled Vatican constitution allowed any baptised lay Catholic, including women ... dismissed a proposal to allow some married men to be ordained in remote areas, such as in the ...

Catholic students at Florida State University have been praying and assisting their fellow Seminoles amid a deadly mass shooting at ... “Many of the students in that area came running up the ...

A Catholic church in Queens was engulfed in flames less than 24 hours before worshippers were set to gather for Easter Sunday mass. The fire broke out at Saint Edmund Church of the Holy Trinity ...

The pope briefly met with Vice President JD Vance days after Francis rebuked the Trump administration for its immigration crackdown and slashing of international aid.