Francis' "no" to women's ordination is not just the exclusion of women from a Church role. It is an insupportable and blatant ...

Around St. Peter’s Square, the pope offered services to the homeless and migrants, in ways that often did not go down well ...

World leaders and Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral that highlighted his concern for people on the ...

Francis, who took his name after Saint Francis of Assisi, was known for his outreach to the poor and those in poverty and ...

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re eulogized Pope Francis at his funeral, calling him "a pope among the people, with an open heart ...

Neumann University, the Catholic university the Sisters founded in 1965, owns that building now and rents office space and ...

Without an experience of the resurrection in their lives, the signs worked by St. Francis of Assisi and others couldn't have ...

At his funeral, Pope Francis was remembered and venerated as a pontiff with "strength and serenity" who modeled his pontificate on St. Francis of Assisi. The dean of the College of Cardinals, Giovanni ...

G.K. Chesterton wrote of St. Francis of Assisi, But after all, this man was a man and not half a dozen men. What seems inconsistency to you did not seem inconsistency to him. We should keep this same ...

Pope Francis asked to be buried in St. Mary Major, close to the most important icon of Mary, the Salus Populi Romani.

Artist Freiman Stoltzfus works on a mural titled “Saint Francis in Lancaster” on the wall of the cafeteria inside Mary ...

Families, seminarians and state Catholic conference executive joined the crowds converging on St. Peter’s Square to honor the ...